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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in Finance and make 700K in the private sector with a 7% 401K contribution 100% matching.  My colleagues who do similar jobs at the SEC make around 250K.  Not everyone wants a job in the government.[/quote]

Thanks for stopping by and sharing totally useless and irrelevant information. [/quote]

The point is not everyone is obsessed with working for the Fed when it is better in the private sector.[/quote]

But the question was why do so many want FEDERAL jobs and not, can you make more in the private sector.  We already know you can - most feds came from the private sector.  Start a new thread.[/quote]

I went through a few years in my 30s when I tried to make the shift from a federal contractor to federal employment, without success. At 50 my employer got bought out and all the individual contributors above a certain age were laid off (no surprise - upper management did just fine).

I had been warned that the workplace would be unkind when I hit middle age but brushed it off. I understand why so many people are drawn to federal employment and wish I had made the jump.

But I'm just another one of those cogs in the machine. No doubt, those in management, high end individual contributors and others who've been making six figures since their 20s have a different perspective. [/quote]

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