Reply #45: Well I was hoping for a federal job [View All]

[alarimer]

when I got done with all this crap because my current employer does not appreciate me and I am not about to be a mere technician with an MS. I am already overqualified for a job a monkey could do (besides which my coworkers are complete assholes).

I was hoping for better news. Guess I am going to have to go work for a consulting firm. I do not want to compromise my ethics that way but I have talents that are not being used and I am just getting to damn old to be on the bottom of the totem pole. I guess I ought to go where the money is and to hell with my ethics. Still I have been told that once you work for a consulting firm, no one in this state agency will hire you back. I am not sure this it true but it frightens me if it is.

The thing is, I ABHOR business and corporations and the way they treat employees. I only ever wanted to work for some government agency because at least then I know the benefits will be good. In the private sector it is also far too easy to fire someone for being too old, as long as they say it was "for cause". I am getting to the age where age discrimination is a real possibility (in the private sector). But I also hate business as a general rule. And do not give a shit about profit.

I am thinking about California again actually. I'd have to figure out a way to go out there and take the tests but I know I won't be selling my soul to work there (even if it is expensive to live there) because the state of California generally cares about the environment (unlike Texas which is a rape and pillage state in regards to the environment).

Also I have noticed some states (Florida, Maryland) are not offering benefits even with advanced degrees.

Nobody told me it would be this difficult when I was in school. I wish they had. I would have been an accountant or something. At least I would always be able to find work there.