Hey, you guys, I’ve been submitting applications and trying to get work for a year, and have had virtually no responses. One phone interview. I’d be thrilled to get a federal job. I’m certainly not going to get hired in the private sector. You don’t want me to have my home go into foreclosure and go into welfare to suck up tax dollars, do you? Wouldn’t you rather that people like me get a federal job and pay taxes rather than starve and freeze?
“Wouldn’t you rather that people like me get a federal job and pay taxes rather than starve and freeze?”
Those aren’t jobs, they are positions created oout of thin air and have no purpose except to pay people like you.
IN THE REAL WORLD IT’S CALLED WELFARE.
Instead of hiring the government should be firing over 50% of the current pay collectors!
I worked in a contract position for the NSA. There were only 5 others in the whole country who did what I did and it took them three years to assemble our team. Four years ago I quit to go to college. Now I’ve applied to go back to the agency, and I’m told it’s a 6-10 month wait.
Efficient.
If the government didn’t suck up ALL of our wealth and didn’t microregulate every aspect of our lives, you would have had hundreds of job offers. Sure, in the short term you need to survive and nobody wants you to starve or be homeless. But your argument taken just a little bit farther is a recipe for massive failure of the US. If we all get hopeless and turn to federal jobs as a last resort, we become another failure like every other socialist state. Then we can all go riot in the streets as they try to cut off our nonstop flow of freebies and sustenance. Is that what you want?
I have been where you are twice, so I can speak from personal experience. Have you tried retraining yourself? Going into business for yourself? That’s what I did when I got laid low in the early 90s. You can do it, too.
My son has been having the same problem. He’s enrolled in on-line criminal justice degree program and has applied for the ....wait for it....lol...TSA! Oh well, it’s a stepping stone for the career he really wants, but I mention it because it seems, like the article states, after several attempts, he’s found they are now hiring more quickly than usual. It’s a lengthy process, but he has completed it all, including the physical, in about 2 months, compared to a year. So, we’ll see...just thought I’d mention it.