Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
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Anonymous
As have many of us NOT in the federal government. Things are so worrisome that many of us currently employed in fields that don't currently appear at risk are cutting discretionary spending. My husband and I are both teachers. We don't think we're at risk (but could be, who knows) but we've cut eating out by 80%, we're saving, not spending. And we're nowhere near DC. I don't trust anything anymore. |
Anonymous
| Teaching! Can get hired immediately. |
Anonymous
I gave them empathy too. Not all of us are damaged. I'm from farming roots in the midwest, facing unemployment now. Perhaps it's not the best time for you to be so calloused and call it a left vs right thing. It's an American thing we need to all be aware of. If you dont see it now, you'll be blindsided later.. I too think there will be lots of suicides in the next year - mostly middle aged white men with lots of responsibility and no prospects. Sadly ,we know we are worth more dead than alive. I've done the calculation. |
Anonymous
DP. This may not land the way you want it to. A lot of us can’t afford house cleaners, car detailing, lawn care, travel, and home renovation. Those are luxuries. So cutting back on that stuff simply takes you to the lifestyle many of us are already living. |
Anonymous
Maybe lower GS will but higher GS will most likely not which is why people are worried about a “brain drain”. Those who have doctorate will go into private sector or seek employment internationally or at internationally funded agencies. |
Anonymous
childcare - agree, but there will be much less demand if these Gilead commanders get their way and less women are working respite foster care - funded by who? eldercare - hope Medicare holds up during the collapse substitute teaching - no way, they are cutting school funding all over the place. We are less than 5 years from them putting 100+ kids in a room with a recorded curriculum. Maybe 1 or 2 minimum wage room monitors... or I don't even want to say this but "cell block" type rooms where guards video monitor multiple rooms and only intervene if there are problems. Sounds crazy now but schools have becoming more prisonish for decades and i guarantee cutting teachers and using tech in its place is on the docket. Dog walking - with what disposable income? Again, more women at home. Some work here but trust that in the long vision, women are back to doing (even more) free domestic labor. |
Anonymous
This isn’t a zero sum game, Sandra. Your persecution complex is the problem — not other people. |
Anonymous
Look, health systems are also going to be in trouble. The cuts to Medicaid are apparently going to really take down a lot of health systems. I’ve spoken to people in the industry. I wouldn’t assume nursing is a guarantee either. |
Anonymous
I need people to stop posting this. You can’t just walk into teaching. It requires licensure. And even if you do an alternative route program, it’s going to take some time. You need special ed credits, reading credits, Praxis scores (or the equivalent), student teaching experience or time with a mentor, etc. And after all that, you need to survive your first classroom on your own. I know people think this job is easy and anyone can do it, but that simply isn’t true. We have so many shortages right now because so many people can’t or don’t want to put up with the demands. |
Anonymous
Nobody was mocking you, and your anger was envy. Call it what it is. |
Anonymous
It depends on the school. Some religion based schools are not that expensive. |
Anonymous
Yep the lady sitting in a fed government payroll office or the low level SEC lawyer doing document review were certainly living in their $2mil homes in McLean, taking 4 vacations per year and laughing at your struggles rather than you know - trying to figure out how to buy a house themselves or pay the ever increasing electric and food bills. You're definitely mad at the right people :roll: You're just playing the - I'm miserable, why shouldn't they be - game. Rather than blaming those in charge who closed their eyes and kept saying oh no economy is fantastic, nope no jobs are being exported to other countries, nope inflation is NBD. |
Anonymous
| Who wants to teach armed children for $50K a year? |
Anonymous
This- private sector here and I have been struggling and seeing lots of jobs cut and budgets slashed. But I have consistently proposed on this board that I would support just continuing to pay every fed (what is it, 3% of budget)? and I don't.even.care if they work or wfh or what. They can focus on cutting the programs (and I know that impacts jobs further downstream) but keep the feds employed in a stable manner. It's too scary to think of that many people out of work at once and what will happen to the economy. Everyone is so evil to everyone else. I would completely support the feds getting free money like a UBI even if I don't get it because I'm not one. Same as I'm ok with student loan forgiveness and generous maternity leave; things I don't need. WTF is happening with society? 
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Anonymous
Not true quite yet. My boss is calling me every day. Can't find restaurant workers in DC. |