Fed Job at 43?
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Anonymous
| Until recently a dual income household, both with Big Jobs. It was terrible for whole family, gave me significant- hopefully temporary- health issues. DH now has the Big Job and I am figuring out what’s next. I’m considering federal jobs. I’d want something where I could be a worker bee and not be responsible for leading a team or supervising anyone. Work life balance, pension, and retirement healthcare. I’d be plenty happy with a job that I never though about outside of the office getting paid $60k with regular increases, all of my salary would go to retirement and 529 anyway. Does this seem reasonable for a fed role? |
Anonymous
| I’m 45 and largely have this kind of job…I make twice that. If you have a college degree you can too. |
Anonymous
| Absolutely, and you'll make much more than 60k. What kind of experience do you have and how many years? |
Anonymous
Perfect. I have a BA & BS and a grad degree. The big thing for me not being in charge of anything. I need to move a piece of paper across a desk twice a week? 10 pieces of paper? I can listen to a podcast while I do it? Great. |
Anonymous
20+ years in white collar professional settings. 10 years in management and leading strategic initiatives - which I want to avoid doing again. |
Anonymous
I’ve never seen a Fed job like you describe. Most I know are either in meetings nonstop and have real deliverables like memos or reports. Do you mean you will write 2 or 3 white papers a week or just review and sign? Maybe if you can snag an SES with all your experience you can get away from deliverables, but you will be talking to people esp political appointees at all hours. |
Anonymous
"I want"? It is not that easy. "I would like" make more sense. |
Anonymous
Feb job advertise looking for very specific skill sets, not based on the applicant's desires. |
Anonymous
Why work? You are in your 50s, and have $Ms in bank and a DH with a BigJob? |
Anonymous
I was pretty sympathetic to your post— we have IC jobs and hire 40 yos for them but what kind of job do you think you can do while listening to a podcast? You think we’re all a bunch of idiots processing TPS reports? Gfy |
Anonymous
There are absolutely GS-7 jobs that are not intellectually taxing. And that's almost 60k. |
Anonymous
You are not getting those if you are not a veteran. |
Anonymous
| The thing is, everywhere in gov is understaffed. So even the pretty mindless back office jobs are stressful because the volume is high. for ex, lot of fed HR is mindless (think, scan this folder of 300 resumes to confirm they all have x years of experience) but there are a handful of people doing that for an entire agency, so they are carrying a lot of weight. And there will always be senior officials who want things yesterday. So nobody is insulated from stress. |
Anonymous
| Hmm, I have to actually work for my fed job salary and benefits. |
Anonymous
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OP. Responses seem to be ignoring my initial post. Low stress for a modest salary, mostly what I’m interested in are the retirement benefits because retiree health care is insanely expensive. Also, I generally don’t believe that it serves women not to have some kind of personal income. Not sure where someone got that we have millions in the bank or that I’m in my 50s, neither of those things are true.
Document review, data entry, white papers, lower stress administrative work etc is what I’m looking for. Compared to what I’d been doing, it’s the equivalent of pushing paper back and forth across a desk. What I don’t want is to lead teams or strategic initiatives. I’m fine with deadlines and every job has deliverables. Yes, I want this kind of job. I could understand the snark if I said I want this job for $200k a year, but really $60k is the range I’m shooting for. Y’all are weird. |