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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What types of jobs are we talking about here? What are these jobs that are only available in DC?
Some are saying that even if they find a new job outside of DC, their career will be over. 
I'm really curious to know what those jobs are.[/quote]

Two Fed household here.  Impossible for us to leave D.C. and have both of us stay in the same field.  [/quote]

This is why I always encourage young people to be careful what they wish for when they take that first dc-centric job.[/quote]

Sometimes it's just the best alternative we have. The non-DC jobs I was offered in the nonprofit sector after grad school paid 50% less than my fed job and one didn't even offer health insurance; consulting paid less at my level and was 75% travel. I chose my career field when I was young, healthy, and single, a life of travel sounded awesome, and I only had to make enough to rent a room; things changed between 21 and 29 and I could only walk through the doors left open.

I don't get why people on this forum seem to think anyone should be able to move wherever they want and find a job. Do most people they know actually do that? The only people I know who've managed it are doctors and nurses, even the lawyers and engineers i know have struggled to find work in new places if they are not moving for a job.[/quote]

I don't think anyone should be able to move anywhere and find a job. I know there are some jobs that are particular to DC. I am responding to the people who seem to believe that NO ONE can leave DC because otherwise they won't be able to work.

1. People make tradeoffs. Sometimes you do take a job that pays less because you want to be somewhere else.

2. Many many many many people are working in the sorts of jobs that can be found in other cities. Not just NYC, SF, or LA - but all over the place.

3. If YOU can't leave DC for whatever reason, then fine. But I see so many people discouraging those who CAN leave from doing so because jobs, free museums, and everywhere else is just full of boring Trump supporting hicks. It is such a weird, dumb, provincial way to see the world. And frankly I find it disturbing to think some of those people could be setting policy for the whole country, given how little they seem to know about what goes on outside the District.

4. I left DC. I live in another small, lovely city now. People here have jobs. People here have nice houses. I'm here to tell you: it's possible.[/quote]

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