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[quote=Anonymous]Relatively new GS15 who has a few years before grade compression hits me, generally wondering about what career choices I will make when the time comes.  I’m assuming that the GS remains unreformed and that even for someone who is in it for the mission, that will get old after several years particularly as I will have many working years left.

If you went SES/political appointee/other higher wage offering federal employment:
- what’s your appointment and pay mechanism?
- how many more hours do you work then when you were a 15?  This is my top concern with this set of career options… a significant blow to work/life balance.
- how do you feel about your job security?  Seems like for some it is more tenuous then GS.  A factor if one goes this route expecting the pension to be part of benefits of doing this vs going private.
- other significant pros/cons to your decision?

If you went private… I’m interested in hearing:
- how much more money you were offered to go private (and your sector to help put that in context)?
- what your retirement plan offerings are like in private and how loss of pension did or did not factor in to your decision?
- if you ever plan to return to fed govt (to get that pension back)?
- other significant pros/cons to your decision?

It would seem to me that going SES etc would almost inherently mean losing some work life balance and gaining some stress because the switch involves climbing to a new level in your career, but that going private sector may not have the same implications if you take what’s essentially a lateral move.

Thanks.[/quote]

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