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We're in our early 40s with young kids. My spouse has been an SES for about 5 years, and I was recently asked by leadership if I might want to make the jump to SES. …

Try to make it clear that it might be the right job, but maybe just not the right time.  Don't close the door if you'd want that opportunity 5 years from now.  [/quote]

You’re young so this last point maybe the most important. I’ve been a GS15 for almost 15 years and am mid-50s now. We have about two dozen people like me in our division. At a meeting about staffing this morning someone brought up the lack of SES opportunities. Leadership responded that someone would probably retire in the next five years and so there’d be one spot. We looked at each other and someone said “but half of us are eligible to retire by then as well, so you’re saying there’s no path to move up left in our careers.”

A reason to consider this opportunity is that it can be worse to stagnate than to be challenged. [/quote]

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