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not always.  I was offered the dreaded SSA "decision writer" job referred to by a pp.  I accepted initially but turned it down in favor of a job working for a sole practitioner.  Based on what I've heard about the job in years since, I made the right decision.  That job doesn't even require JD skills, much less a bar admission, but those are prerequisites.  The pay tops out at a GS-12, and you work for two-year stints (which always get renewed unless you are a real screw up, but still you don't get that coveted job security).  The job apparently entails cutting and pasting slop into ALJ decisions.  No way you could parlay that into another gig elsewhere, unless you wanted to leave govt and work in shitlaw doing SSA appeals work.

People told me I was nuts at the time, because many solos are lowlives and will mistreat you, but that wasn't the case.  He paid me well and I got great experience.  He unfortunately had to lay me off, but I wound up in biglaw.  If I wanted to work for the feds now, I have a much better shot than I would have trying to transfer from that SSA shitjob to another agency.

In MOST cases, it probably makes sense to take whatever you can just to get your foot in the door as a fed, but not always. [/quote]

You post this story fairly regularly. Lots of assumptions and nastiness for someone who never worked there.

-former ssa atty now a us attorney[/quote]

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