Honestly, are most federal jobs really boring?
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Anonymous
| Just wondering. My job bores me so badly. Some of my co-workers swear that really all fed jobs are mostly slow and boring and say it's pointless transfer elsewhere because I'll find the same thing. I'm grateful for my job but sometimes it feels like I'm losing brain cells. |
Anonymous
| I seriously doubt you can make such a sweeping generalization - the federal government is large and includes many varied organizations. That said - and I do find my government job kind of boring.... I do think there are other areas of the federal government which I would find more interesting. I just happen to not be at one of those places. |
Anonymous
| Most jobs ae boring. Fact. |
Anonymous
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I had 2. The first was a postdoc research position which was not boring.
the second was a policy job and I was bored most of the time. I asked for more work, came up with project ideas, pitched in on other projects and was still "underutilized". After 1 year, i was OFFERED A PROMOTION! I left instead. I am at a nonprofit and it's interesting most of the time. |
Anonymous
I'm well aware of that. I've already worked for two agencies. My current job is a very slow one also. |
Anonymous
| At least it's not boring and you are toiling. |
Anonymous
| My fed job would not be boring if I could make the decisions and have a paralegal or admin execute the documents. But we do not have competent admin and no paralegals at all so I spend a lot of time drafting letters and memos and other boring things. The meat of what we do is interesting but if is very tedious to document it all. |
Anonymous
| PP here- perhaps that would be different if I were higher up the chain but from what I've seen all the managers are just as buried in paperwork. |
Anonymous
That I can agree with. Working sucks period. I can think of a hundred other things I'd rather do. |
Anonymous
All the interesting jobs I would really want - pay next to nothing. 
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Anonymous
| They could get the work done with half the number, so of course it's boring. |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
| There is a reason they have to pay you to come. My federal job is about 50% boring and 50% I enjoy. We are understaffed..and not on the clock now. |
Anonymous
| Mine has boring moments, but overall I find the work fascinating. |
Anonymous
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It depends on the agency, and the section within the agency.
At Justice or the US Attorney's Office, you're generally going to be involved in enormously satisfying work. But that also is dependent on which section you're in (which could be the difference, for example, between handling simple assault cases versus terrorism cases). My impression is that one can say generallly say the same thing of the SEC, DOD, Treasury, and State. |