Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:48     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:I’m a lawyer in private practice and need to hire paralegals. Those jobs are in demand. Professional skills may transfer from government jobs. We pay well in legal.


Same.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:48     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Seriously, look at a second degree nursing program. By the time your fork money ends you will be close to finished.


I’m not a fed but I am seriously considering this. From my research, though, they take several years?


Maybe PP is thinking of second degrees for people who already have a nursing degree.


I left nursing to work in the government. It's fine but you have to be prepared to work overnights. That didn't work for my family so I had to leave the profession. It does take at least a year or two to get trained. A lot of hospitals these days will want BSN at a minimum.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:46     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Education. Teachers have been fleeing in droves.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:44     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Seriously, look at a second degree nursing program. By the time your fork money ends you will be close to finished.


I’m not a fed but I am seriously considering this. From my research, though, they take several years?


Maybe PP is thinking of second degrees for people who already have a nursing degree.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:43     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Probably in the service jobs mass deportation will free up. Literally, that’s the only thing I can come up with and it’s grim.


What about server positions? Easily $40-$50 per hour.


Not when everyone in a specific region is laid off and tightening their belts. Restaurants will have trouble staying open as well.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:43     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They’re not. They’re not supposed to find work. This is meant to be punitive and punishing to Feds and to those fired. Musk and Trump want to destroy the government as we know it. They don’t care if these people can’t find jobs or if the unemployment numbers go up(which they won’t bc they’ll be rigged). They don’t care about the country or its overall wellbeing.


+1


We all need to leave the country. I am struggling to find anywhere to go.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:42     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
I’m a lawyer in private practice and need to hire paralegals. Those jobs are in demand. Professional skills may transfer from government jobs. We pay well in legal.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:42     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:They’re not. They’re not supposed to find work. This is meant to be punitive and punishing to Feds and to those fired. Musk and Trump want to destroy the government as we know it. They don’t care if these people can’t find jobs or if the unemployment numbers go up(which they won’t bc they’ll be rigged). They don’t care about the country or its overall wellbeing.


+1
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:41     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Probably in the service jobs mass deportation will free up. Literally, that’s the only thing I can come up with and it’s grim.


What about server positions? Easily $40-$50 per hour.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:41     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:FCPS I think has an open house re teaching


That’s another job you can’t just walk into. You need, at the very least, to be on a path toward certification. That requires taking courses, etc.

You can sub.



There are plenty of admin openings at gatehouse, along with school based roles and FCPS has a provisional licensure program. It might not be viable for people
Making GS 13+ money but it’s definitely not school based only
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:41     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Seriously, look at a second degree nursing program. By the time your fork money ends you will be close to finished.


I’m not a fed but I am seriously considering this. From my research, though, they take several years?
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:40     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Seriously, look at a second degree nursing program. By the time your fork money ends you will be close to finished.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:40     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wal Mart
Target
Outback
Chilis
Five Guys
Merry Maids
Jiffy Lube


So you going to have hundreds of thousands of highly educated people making minimum wage at a five guys?

That is absurd. I would have no reason to go on living. Really predict this admin will result in a significant increase in suicides.


That’s your choice.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:39     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
They’re not. They’re not supposed to find work. This is meant to be punitive and punishing to Feds and to those fired. Musk and Trump want to destroy the government as we know it. They don’t care if these people can’t find jobs or if the unemployment numbers go up(which they won’t bc they’ll be rigged). They don’t care about the country or its overall wellbeing.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 17:39     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Probably in the service jobs mass deportation will free up. Literally, that’s the only thing I can come up with and it’s grim.


I don’t see anyone doing that.


There was a post earlier from someone who was asking if they could be a manager at a retailer as a backup option.

You don’t just waltz into those jobs.


Yup. My relative manages a large retail store. He worked for years to get there after college (trainee program, various assistant manager positions, manager at a small store, and then finally the big store. He also had to move 4 times.