Reply to Would you leave a fed job?

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "Would you leave a fed job?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a secure federal job, after 14 years I make $158k and always imagined I'd stay until retirement. One of our contractors just asked me if I'd consider doing virtually the same job for them for over $200kthough in guessing the benefits aren't as good and the company is smaller and less secure. Would you consider leaving federal employment under these circumstances?[/quote]

Yes, but i job hop every ~3 years and make 280k now. My employer not only offers a 10k 401k match, but I get an ESPP (15% discount) and I have RSUs. On RSUs ALONE i have nearly 300k in options from prior and current employer. Think I had to go in today? Nope. Deosnt get taken from ky PTO because that is unlimited. But what do I care? 7k was just DD into my checking for 2 weeks of work.

I cannot imagine making 158k/yr and the cieling not being much higher. However clearly my risk tolerance is MUCH higher than yours, i prefer high risk, high reward. I want more out of life that the basics. So of course i would take it. No brainer.

Between DH and I we contribute 53k to 401k and 11k to IRAs.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics