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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a furloughed mid-grade fed with a decent emergency fund. I started out as a GS-5 park ranger making $16/HR five years ago, and took an office job for more money and stability. Most rangers are at the GS-5 or 7 level, with fewer at 9 and 11. It's hard enough to support a household in D.C. as a ranger, much harder when you're NOT GETTING PAID...a friend's wife got laid off in the fall, how much "emergency" are they supposed to prepare for? The maintenance workers who take out the trash on the National Mall aren't getting rich either. We're not ALL GS-15 lawyers believe it or not, the bottom of the pyramid is large in some agencies.[/quote]

18:00 here. I'm also a furloughed fed in the bottom 20% of my agency-not a gs 15 attorney. Life is a series of compound choices. I don't eat out and I live well below my means because I know bad things like this or much worse can happen.

I read an article about a Fed who was complaining that he had to eat the food in his fridge instead of eating out. Look him up and hes making 115k.

Y'all can tell me to gfms, but I have no sympathy for this. [/quote]

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