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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Different employers are different.

Some employers I recently worked for had a total of 10 days PTO per year, no sick leave, most Federal holidays but not all Federal holidays. I don't get more than those 10 PTO days until after my 5 year anniversary, when it goes to 12 PTO days/year.

With kids in child care and in FCPS, I used all 10 days off in <7 months between little kids out sick, "teacher work days", "half day school days", a few hours off to take kids to routine MD, a few hours for my annual physical, and such. FCPS being closed for snow plus random stuff for a whole week was a problem in Feb.

And my kids and I were not more sick than average for elementary or being pre-K in child care.

If PP has an employer with lots of PTO or PTO plus sick leave, that is great. Many many employers are just not like that. [/quote]

I'm a fed who still worries about losing my job (be it Schedule F or a RIF), and this was a huge factor in my not seriously pursuing local government jobs last year. The leave is too precious.

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I’m now a fed that came from local governments. My experience is that local governments give better leave than the feds (that is one way they compete with federal agency employers), they still have hybrid telework, and (like the Fed job I have now) you can negotiate somewhat on starting PTO. You should perhaps consider if this is the only thing stopping you.[/quote]

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