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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been in this position, but it sometimes takes me years to find another lateral fed job…how do you all manage to keep plodding along?  I honestly already had depression now I am totally dead inside.

decent paying jobs in my series are rare, and they write the qualifications so specifically for the 13 and 14 that you need to have had the exact job before to even get an interview.[/quote]

“Dead inside”. FFS, you would literally kill your self if you had to do a real job like working a paving crew in August, sanitation, or as a social worker dealing with unhinged unhorsed.

If you are really so capable, use the time  to do the best work you can, take a cr@p ton of training and self teach on skills (become a PMP or learn to program Excel  — these are all things that can make any job more productive, so you aren’t defrauding the gov), and make what improvements you can.  Exercise during lunch.

I can’t even, did you have ever to work a mildly unpleasant job like dining hall in college or cleaning up on aisle 13 in high school, or did mom and dad grease the skids you only had to work in an air conditioned office on your tush?[/quote]

My first job was the overnight crew at Walmart, but thanks for your concern.[/quote]

Retail? I guess it’s harder than an office job but definitely nicer than my dads job of climbing through coal stacks to swap scrubbers.

I’m sorry you have depression, but coming on here to basically attack Feds and paint a broad brush that this job leaves you dead inside is a poor representation of those with mental health challenges.  Situational depression is a thing, but “my job is boring and they talk to much” usually isn’t the root cause.

Why not post here looking for a therapist rather than taking out a hit on Federal employees?[/quote]

Attack feds?  You are something.  I said I had one miserable and unfulfilling job, that happened to be a fed job.  I never said it was endemic to the whole government and could easily have occurred in the private sector.  Why are you reading so much into this?

And I never even implied the job was the root cause of my depression, in fact I stated I had depression before even taking the job in the first place.  Of course bad situations can make mental health worse.

You really are the one getting weirdly defensive seeing insults that are not there.  You might need therapy for that![/quote]

Then why even mention it’s a Fedesal job — just say it’s a new job that sucks? There are often threads here attacking Fed employees esp during govt shutdown talks. Hence my skepticism [/quote]

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