It’s kind of a no-brainer. The government sector has secure jobs and is isolated (for the most part) from the chaos that the private sector is going through.
RE: “It’s kind of a no-brainer. The government sector has secure jobs and is isolated (for the most part) from the chaos that the private sector is going through.”
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In some ways it’s like academia — the majority of professors and such have NEVER had any clue about the real world. This has been true for many decades.
A relative of mine is a professor (engineering) at a highly ranked university in the east. He is a conservative, one of the few, and says there is absolutely no comparison between working in private industry and in academia. Academics don’t get it re ‘real life;’ never will.
That is exactly right. I told the story here a few weeks ago about a girl in my daughter’s class at school who had brought in a can for the can drive a day late to get five points extra credit on the final exam. The teacher rolled her eyes when the girl muttered that her mom didn’t get paid until the day before and said “Everyone has extra food in their cabinets!” The area I’m in has been especially devestated due to factories that have been here since the civil war moving to Brazil. 14 factories with tens of thousands of workers relying on them. Now folks are beating each other up for whatever scrap job they can find or lose their homes to move (because they sure aren’t selling) and this idiot teacher gets her paycheck every week and is completely clueless about what is going on. My daughter said she physically wanted to hit that teacher for making that girl feel worse than she did.