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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who are all these unicorn fed workers who work longer hours than biglaw?

Listen, i don't begrudge any of you your very sweet fed gigs.  The pay is lower, the work often less rewarding and more, well, governmental.

But I have many, many highly competent friends in DC who work for the feds (some straight out of grad school, and some many years after a private sector career). And I've only ever know a handful of them who work past 5:30pm. That's the whole point of federal govt. None of them would say that their jobs or their colleagues' jobs require long hours.

Weird that all 16 fed workers out of 3 million who work 60 hours a week are all on dcum.  [/quote]

IME it's very agency, division, and sometimes even supervisor dependent.  DH has one of those jobs right now where he's regularly working 10+ hr days, but it wasn't always like that. It kinda sucks, he's never home for dinner anymore, and the only reason it works is because my job is not as demanding and I can typically logoff at 5pm.

Despite the demands he DOES like his job, but has already said that if they start slashing benefits and pay, it may not be worth it anymore.  [/quote]

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