Attorney--Non Supervisory 15 Positions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of them at DOJ, but you still work your ass off.

+1

Yep.

Another DOJ attorney here. But it's still better than dealing with all the management/administrative crap. I work hard, but it's substantive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an outsider ... Why is non supervisory so coveted? Wouldn't you want a team (read: resources you can ask to help with things)??

Xoxo,
Confused non lawyer non gov dude

20:51 (and before) here....

Being a supervisory attorney in the fed. govt. started heading down the road to major suckage (IMO) during the Clinton Administration, accelerated under Shrub, and has gotten nearly intolerable now. That is a nonpartisan observation of fact, not a political comment.

The amount of incredible, burdensome, non-substantive b.s. that managers & supervisors have to deal with now compared to when I became a supervisor in 1990 is mind-numbing. I vacillated when offered the chance to switch to a non-supervisory manager/policy advisor position in 1999 but in hindsight it was the best move of my career, I got to spend the last 14 yrs. focusing on substance and not being saddled with the ridiculous stuff I saw my supervisory colleagues having to deal with. I made it clear to my managers that I would step back to a staff attorney position before I would ever take another supervisory job, and luckily I was very good at my job so I never had to.