Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Could you work for “the govt”

Almost all industries receive gov’t funding at some level. We all use government services many times every day. Lots of good folks providing those services, most you’ll never even meet. But rage on if it makes you feel better.

Never been a government employee, but have done government work at
almost every job I've had. Pretty hard to avoid it.

Hauled gov. freight.
Construction work that ended up on gov. projects, even private projects that
were receiving grants or tax breaks.
Driving dump truck, ended up on road jobs.
Factory work with jobs that were ultimately DOD projects.
Everytime we need to do an expensive upgrade the factory goes grant
shopping. They often get one.

I work for a small local.gov, no guilt here. Go to work do your fuqking job and don't whine about piddly schit.

There's no way I could work for State or Federal.gov.

Retired after 34 years with USDA. Helped keep farmers in business and food on your table. Pretty decent career path, good bit of personal satisfaction. Retired during the Obama years when it wasn’t fun anymore. Civil rights issues, selective hiring, reverse discrimination, made things unbearable. I called it a career and moved on.

Spot on...

If we sit back and let the woke run the governments, we shouldn't bitch about what they do to us. We need to be proactive and change the way they do business and that is more effectively done by being on the inside.

I was a public school business manager for 35 years. In the last school district, we went from having the 2nd highest taxes to having the 2nd lowest. The only district with lower taxes was the smaller one I'd left, where we truly lowered taxes one year. Our scores were better than anyone in the area and we had the best facilities, building a new high school and middle school, and thoroughly renovating all the elementary schools. We built them right, to last a very long time, and our last bond issue was for only 15 years instead of the typical 20 or more. Our debt management alone saved taxpayers over $20 million. We watched the funds carefully and instead of going over budget, we saved enough to pay cash for a $3.5 million stadium renovation. Borrowing would have been the easy way, but much more expensive. If a woke leadership had been doing that, things would have been much more expensive.

Complain what you will, but without getting your hands dirty and working to fix it, our future is inevitable.

I work for the usda. 27th year. Love it, donated 5 weeks of annual leave last year along with 3 weeks of comp. If you love your work no vacation is needed

Spent a number of years in uniform and now draw a retirement. I also work as a contractor producing operator and maintenance manuals and conducting training for a new military vehicle. I guess you could say I’m comfortable working directly or indirectly for the government. Doesn’t mean I have to believe in or support everything they are doing.
Old70

What if you work for people... that work for the Government.

If the Blair House needs a paint job in the parlor... and the price is $1.78m.

Is that honorable work?

Did not know him well, but I remember the name........

Keep Paying your Taxes. We all work for the Crooked Government!!!

I did for a lot of years. The job needed doing and I was glad to do it. There's still plenty of jobs that have honor and people who have integrity doing them in the .gov and .mil. Bad downswing right now but even with that, my previous statement stands.

We all work for the government until April or May every year.

That opens up a whole nuther can of worms.

Why, in many applications, does govt do what private industry could do much better?

Yet, govt prevents private industry or companies from doing that...

It's more like until Thanksgiving.

LOL! I guess I did it wrong.

I been self employed so long I doubt I could work for anybody. I’m sure there are both hard workers and slugs employed by the government just like any organization. The issue I have with government employment is that it seems difficult to get rid of an employee if they are a slug.
I wouldn't generalize.

I retired at 38 after 20+ years of various self employed ventures.

Outta boredom I took a seasonal Federal job on Alaskas Bering Sea coast that was housing related.

Rewards vs efforts were positively ludicrous, no private business on earth could survive the costs with so little production involved.

At the end of this seasonal job I was placed into training for a year round position which paid far more than the $2800.00 a week seasonal job I'd been working. Two weeks into the training it became obvious there was to be far less required of me with this job that paid way more money.

I quit, I couldn't do it, I'd become part of the problem we have with our government, I didn't need a job anyway.

A guy has to look himself in the face every morning in the mirror.
All I could see was a guy fleecing the tax payers for profit, wasn't me, couldn't do it.

I would never, except when I did - but that doesn't count.

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