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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's all a matter of perspective.

My wife is a civil servant (GS-14) and I am a federal contractor (I make the equivalent of a GS-15).  We may make less than peers in the private sector, but we also know we have a much better work-life home balance.  We see our kids way more than those peers in private sector do and we have a lot more flexibility to take care of our family as we need to.  My wife has a long term medical issue that has required significant medical treatment over the years (including 15 surgeries in 14 years).  We can take the time we need to travel for the best medical care in the country including many follow-up medical visits to another city.  We can flex our time to cover lots of this.  We can take family vacations and take time to do things for our young children.  For example, one of the parent chaperones had to drop out for our kids' class field trip this week.  I found out last week about 6 business days before, but with very little notice, I could request leave and replace that chaperone (in fact, the teacher asked me if I could come as I've chaperoned before and work well with the kids).  My work had no problem.  I know friends in my field out in private and some guys would be pressured not to go or would be frowned on asking for last minute leave for a child's field trip.  Not worth it at all.  My wife's benefits are extremely good for our family and she gets to telework 4 days a week thanks to her special accommodations.  A lot of her peers in private would not be able to do that.  We have plenty.  While we make less than our peers, we also make more than 95% of the country and 90% of locals.  We're grateful for what we have and do not resent being out in the stressful grind of the private sector and missing out on our children growing up.[/quote]
Thank you for not pretending it's all about mission, service and other big words.[/quote]

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