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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.  Lawyer for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  I like my job a lot.  I work 40 hours per week from home.  I get paid overtime and bonuses every quarter.  I can earn maternity comp time due to a union contract. There is room for advanncement within the agency should I choose to go that route.  That said, the work is very repetitive but I like the area of law.  I am on the Trademark side.  The benefits far outweigh the downsides, of which there are few.[/quote]

Do you feel like a cog or you work at a white collar sweatshop?[/quote]

Not the PP you quote but I'm the one who retired after 26 yrs.

I did not feel like a cog or that I worked at a white collar sweatshop.

I worked for an agency whose mission I believed in, even if many of the career and political managers were clueless buffoons or worse.  I took management positions for 20+ years even though it was not what I sought (unlike many of the striving narcissists who do seek out SES and other management jobs) because, as I joked to one friend 20+ yrs. ago, "if I take the job at least I know which asshole is in charge and they have to come through me" to get certain things done.

I held my subordinates, managers, and peers, to standards, and they didn't always like it but I was known as an honest broker who was not going to cowtow to further their agendas.  I had enough substantive expertise and independent portfolio to be able to manage up and make sure that they could not push me out.  After 26 years I left on my terms, not theirs.

I have no regrets at leaving and colleagues tell me the level of absurdity and amateurism has (regrettably) only increased in the short time since I left.

I think my situation is somewhat unique, but I don't think the 2 choices you posit are a binary set ... there are other possibilities, too.[/quote]

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