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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some reasons:

- The pay is decent enough, especially in a dual-income household.  Two federal employees at GS14-10 will make about $350k HHI, which is enough for most people.

- Guaranteed job security.  You cannot be laid off for economic reasons, for being too old, etc.  You can work past 65 if you really want.

- Related, you don’t need to worry things like keeping clients, business development, generating revenue, etc.  You can focus solely on your work.

- After 15 years you’ll get about five weeks paid vacation, and you can use it on vacations of any length.  In the private sector it can be hard to take even two weeks off, but in the government, if you’ve got five weeks or more saved up, it’s no problem to take a month off to travel or whatever (without checking email).

- The work is less stressful IMO.  I know many federal employees who work long hours, but it’s not quite the same as in the private sector where you may be forced to work all weekend without advanced notice for something critical or to keep a major client.

I actually think the benefits kind of suck (other than vacation time).  Assuming you’re not grandfathered in and pay nothing toward retirement, contributing 4.4% of your salary for the pension doesn’t seem like a great deal.[/quote]

As a federal employee agree with those comments. Although, in my workplace, 2 people were fired and so it depends on the supervisor how secure your job is. I don't think pension is that generous and that would not be a reason for me to stay in the government. I worked in the private sector prior to government, and it was very hectic. In the government, everything seems to be much slower. [/quote]

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