Managable Jobs? Do tell.
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Anonymous
| If you have a job that is strictly 9-5 and you actually get to take vacations where you don't have to check-in and aren't expected to be available after hours ... what do you do? |
Anonymous
| Engineer, government. |
Anonymous
| Fed contractor. |
Anonymous
| Accounting at a non-profit |
Anonymous
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Analyst, fed government.
Interesting work, regular hours (99% of the time), decent pay, and I would be arrested if I tried to work from home. Great leave (4 weeks of vacation, obviously all federal holidays are off, 13 sick days). Once I'm there for 15 years, my vacation will go up to just over 5 weeks. |
Anonymous
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Fed economist
There's not a ton of fires to be put out for an economist |
Anonymous
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Fed gov analyst. No way would I answer the phone on my annual leave. Comes with the pay though and I feel like this is one benefit of the federal government.
DH is also a fed, but he deals with international issues. He's rarely ever worked less than a 10 hour day (8-6 normally, which still isn't bad) and he gets middle of the night phone calls a lot. He enjoys his work so he doesn't mind not being paid for any of that. |
Anonymous
| Nonprofit and I make $46K/year. So there's a trade off |
Anonymous
Chief economist. Lots of deadlines, but you know them well ahead of time, and there aren't fires that happen off-hours. |
Anonymous
| Manual labor? Haha kidding, sort of. My husband is a brewer and we joke about how our perks/annoyances are opposite. On snow days, I'm still expected to work from home, whereas if he physically can't go to work, he can't work and isn't expected to. On the other hand, I can come early and hop back online to finish something up, whereas he has to stay at the "office" until his work is done for the day. |
Anonymous
| Fed budget analyst. |
Anonymous
| Work for myself and can take time off whenever I want. But I don’t get paid for it. I only make about $48k |
Anonymous
| Be careful with assuming fed jobs are like this. I've been a fed for almost ten years and never had a straight 9-5 where I wasn't checking in off hours and on vacations. Yes, it's more flexible than when I was private sector. So instead of 8-6 or more, I can do 9-10 hours split between day and an hour or two after the kids are in bed. But it's not a 9-5 and to home not thinking about work thing. |
Anonymous
| Trade association. |
Anonymous
I’m a nonprofit economist doing policy work. I often have lots of fires as govt officials propose silly ideas. |