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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Spouse has been a fed for 33 years.  DOGE was devastating.  He worked 60-70 hour weeks regularly.  And while it’s been much better for his mental health to be away from the absolute chaos that his agency had become under this administration, it’s been financial devastating for us and he is in a black hole of paralysis.  And we have bills to pay.

I work full time but we have a young child and a mortgage and planned for both of us to work another 8 years at least.  He needs to start over.  Do you have any tips for how he can even begin to work on his resume and get support for this transition?

I’m used to hustling through several career changes but DH was a very specialized person in his field and just rose through the ranks kind of organically to a GS-15 position.  He was not ambitious; in fact, he requested a demotion in the year before DOGE to a non-supervisory position just to focus on his area of expertise and not have the stress of managing people.  He thought he would just keep working his a** off in that role until retirement.  And now…what?

Just as during COVID I realized I am a good mom but can’t be my kid’s best teacher, I know I can be a good wife but can’t be my DH’s career coach….he freezes and just puts his head in the sand and procrastinates.  How can I help him even to begin to explore new options and get basic help on private sector searching?[/quote]

You work full time. You husband worked 33 years and has a massive Pension and medical in retirement. Why does he need to work at all? Just cancel childcare, he does home repairs, mows lawn, makes dinner and you work.      [/quote]

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