Bahaha "government secretary"!!! Where are these rare beings?! My entire agency only has one secretary and it's for the director. The rest of us figured out the xerox machine 15 years ago.

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me realize just how many unambitious people there are in this country. These gov workers are a disgrace. I guarantee you they each have 1 or 2 secretaries too.

Nope. My section of OGC has not had a secretary in five years, nor a paralegal in over a decade. And we have about 100 attorneys in my section. Somehow, we manage.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me realize just how many unambitious people there are in this country. These gov workers are a disgrace. I guarantee you they each have 1 or 2 secretaries too.

Gov't workers have one or two secretaries? Where are mine? I book my own travel and do my own expenses when I return in addition to making my own depo binders to use on said travel. Higher than the GS scale and still no secretary, damn.

Don't bother responding to the PP. It's such a juvenile and poorly though out attempt at a troll. I'll bet they're loudly giggling to themselves while sitting at a computer in the public library and the librarian is all, "Ssshhhhh. And please take your hand out of your pants, sir."

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me realize just how many unambitious people there are in this country. These gov workers are a disgrace. I guarantee you they each have 1 or 2 secretaries too.

Gov't workers have one or two secretaries? Where are mine? I book my own travel and do my own expenses when I return in addition to making my own depo binders to use on said travel. Higher than the GS scale and still no secretary, damn.

Reading this thread makes me realize just how many unambitious people there are in this country. These gov workers are a disgrace. I guarantee you they each have 1 or 2 secretaries too.

Sorry for double post....

Anonymous wrote:https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/04/05/the-cost-of-living-comfortably-in-d-c.html

It requires over 80k for a single person to live comfortably in the DC area. If you then have lots of school loans, it requires more. Please let potential fed employees know about that before they accept that job.

I find that hard to believe. My friend is an administrative assistant earning $65k (she told me), and she seems comfortable. Not well-off, but not struggling. She rents a 2-bedroom apartment in Rockville, bought a new Camry two years ago, has a timeshare (I don't know what she paid for it), goes out to eat with friends once or twice a week, has an IPhone, just a routine middle-class lifestyle. Her job is in Rockville also so she doesn't have much commuting cost.(Oh,yeah....she's single, no kids.)

Anonymous wrote:https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/04/05/the-cost-of-living-comfortably-in-d-c.html

It requires over 80k for a single person to live comfortably in the DC area. If you then have lots of school loans, it requires more. Please let potential fed employees know about that before they accept that job.

I find that hard to believe. My friend is an administrative assistant earning $65k (she told me), and she seems comfortable. Not well-off, but not struggling. She rents a 2-bedroom apartment in Rockville, bought a new Camry two years ago, has a timeshare (I don't know what she paid for it), goes out to eat with friends once or twice a week, has an IPhone, just a routine middle-class lifestyle. Her job is in Rockville also so she doesn't have much commuting cost.(Oh,yeah....she's single, no kids.)

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Anonymous wrote:People who don't take risks shouldn't get high rewards. That is how the world works honestly. If you want to make big bucks, you have to take a risk, start your own company, look for new markets, etc. If you want to live on a gov paycheck, you should be comfortable, but not overly so.

Spoken like a disagreeable out of touch person. I would not call a government employee making $150K not entitled to comfort! This buys you plenty of comfort, even in this area.
And who are you to pronounce yourself on the risk they took to get there? The loans they had to get, they research they did? The people at NIH have PhDs and MDs and most earn around $100K in senior positions. They had to get through a lot to get where they are.

You are so offensively ignorant.

+1. Laughably, embarrassingly ignorant.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/04/05/the-cost-of-living-comfortably-in-d-c.html

It requires over 80k for a single person to live comfortably in the DC area. If you then have lots of school loans, it requires more. Please let potential fed employees know about that before they accept that job.

In DC and the DC metro area, yes federal employees complain more about money because it's so damn expensive to live here. In lower COL areas, not much complaining at all. It's super competitive to land a lower COL area position though.

Anonymous wrote:People who don't take risks shouldn't get high rewards. That is how the world works honestly. If you want to make big bucks, you have to take a risk, start your own company, look for new markets, etc. If you want to live on a gov paycheck, you should be comfortable, but not overly so.

Spoken like a disagreeable out of touch person. I would not call a government employee making $150K not entitled to comfort! This buys you plenty of comfort, even in this area.
And who are you to pronounce yourself on the risk they took to get there? The loans they had to get, they research they did? The people at NIH have PhDs and MDs and most earn around $100K in senior positions. They had to get through a lot to get where they are.

You are so offensively ignorant.

Not more than other people!

People will complain based on their personalities, not based on their incomes, you know, OP. The poorest people I know are the ones who don't complain.

Anonymous wrote:People who don't take risks shouldn't get high rewards. That is how the world works honestly. If you want to make big bucks, you have to take a risk, start your own company, look for new markets, etc. If you want to live on a gov paycheck, you should be comfortable, but not overly so.

It's not welfare you know.

People who don't take risks shouldn't get high rewards. That is how the world works honestly. If you want to make big bucks, you have to take a risk, start your own company, look for new markets, etc. If you want to live on a gov paycheck, you should be comfortable, but not overly so.