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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Federal attorney.[/quote]

This sounds like a great idea! Go back to school, get a law degree, and then send an application to a Federal Agency. I'm sure they'll definitely hire you since they only get around 1000 resumes per opening. I mean, those odds are way better than the lottery and you'll only owe like $100K when you're done with your degree. [/quote]

So I was browsing one fed agency. They have an incredibly intense application process with 7-8 page writing sample, long inputs about course work and GPAs. They DELETE all applications after 72 hours whether or not they are finished. They obviously only want the most motivated of the motivated job searchers to preserve. I think the "fed" is not that "easy" place to work that people envision...[/quote]

I don't know how it used to be 10 or 20 years ago, but the better federal agencies have gotten pretty tough re hiring. Budgets are stretched thin, so when they put up an opening -- they usually can hire only 1. When they get dozens of people applying who are from top 10 schools, top 20 law firms, law review, and federal clerkships -- that often doesn't leave much of a chance for "regular" applicants. That's not invariably true but I've heard it over and over for agencies like DOJ, SEC etc.

Now I'm sure there are other jobs out there -- but then you have to question whether the work would be satisfying to you. Just the other day a poster on here was complaining that her DH took a gov't atty job at an agency that he doesn't consider to be a "good" one -- so the experience doesn't transfer easily -- and he feels like he's in perpetual high school detention as he's pushing paper from one bureaucrat to another and basically just editing the papers. I suspect those kinds of jobs may not have the same completion.[/quote]

Fed is an easy place to work ONCE you get in. It's got to be hard somewhere, right? Easy to get a job in a fast food restaurant but the work is hard. Hard to get a cushy govt lawyer job but the work is easy, ya dig?[/quote]

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