but Learning to coal is more productive in the long term
Posted on 03/10/2025 9:32:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A young economist who had uprooted her life for civil service. A fierce housing advocate terminated just before buying her first home. A semifinalist whose dreams were dashed before they materialized.
For decades, the Presidential Management Fellows program was seen as a building block for the civil service with the expectation that the few who earned the position would one day become leaders in the federal workforce. Now the road ahead is uncertain. Hundreds of the fellows have been terminated or placed on administrative leave amid a nationwide slashing of the federal workforce.
One of President Donald Trump’s executive orders ended the program, which was created in 1978 to entice highly qualified workers with advanced degrees to join the federal government.
Trump’s Republican administration had ordered agencies to lay off nearly all probationary employees, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of workers in one fell swoop. That included recent classes of the fellows program, which has a two-year probationary period.
Fellows had persevered through an intense selection process that included multiple tests and evaluations as well as a blind interview. The agency website said about 10% of applicants are accepted, although that number has been recently as low as just 3%.
While many fellows affected by the job cuts were reluctant to speak on the record, several did. As a group, they said they loved their jobs and see federal civil service as a way to serve their country. All would welcome, if given a chance, the opportunity to get back to work and use their expertise.
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I hear the World Economic Forum has openings.
Additionally the North Korean government is hiring.
Aspired to government service....
So…the government owes her a job?
I mean, we all kinda had to plan our education and futures around market demands
Nelson from the Simpsons says,
HA HA !!
Our daughter’s biggest dream when she graduated from college 15 years ago was to work for the government. Thank God I was able to talk her out of it.
The biggest dream of FAR TOO MANY young people is to work for the damned government sucking off all of us taxpayers and not producing anything of value.
We are reaping what was sown during decades of brainwashing in our public schools and leftist universities.
Honestly there is no point in reading anything from AP.
They aspire to be hired by the employer of last resort.
IOW, sucking off the taxpayer teat for sinecure and healthy pension.
“Young people who aspired to government service dismayed by Trump ending the federal fellows program”
Young people who aspired to government service that offers a no layoff career and a retirement pay three times better than Social Security dismayed by Trump ending the federal fellows program
There, fixed it
The Federal Government is not an employment agency
Now where are they going to go to get phony baloney jobs?!?
“Government service” is an oxymoron.
AP needs to create an audio that plays the “Sad Romance” violin tune every time you click on one of their anti- DOGE stories.
They should try something with a purpose as I bet the military still has their ROTC Scholarships for 4 years of service.
but Learning to coal is more productive in the long term
“with advanced degrees”
This is great. People should aspire to real jobs instead.
The phrase, “government service” needs a shallow grave.
“Aspire to government service”?
Talk about having low expectations!..................
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