Outside of the federal gov, the benefits make it difficult decision to leave .gov mid-career. (Federal pensions are not as lucrative)
It is rewarding work, especially if you’re self-motivated as there’s always new interesting work. But the salaries paid at tech companies are so nuts it’s difficult to ignore.
The place I used to work at has attrited about 30% of staff between burnout from 18 hour COVID work to greener pastures. One guy I worked with went from $125k to $500k. Assuming the tech economy doesn’t implode, even the awesome pension and benefits just aren’t worth that much.
I think there's an argument to be made for the networking benefits of government and military jobs. Having the experience and connections they bring may open doors that purely commercial employment does not.
A lot of people cut their teeth in government defense jobs and jump to a contractor position doing basically the same thing for double the salary.
I know there are non-corrupt cases of this, but it does seem like a close neighbor to things like regulatory capture, etc...
Re:The United States Digital Corps
by DiggyJohnson on Friday April 08, 2022 @05:35PM
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I think it is a neighbor, as you said, and I’d go so far as to say that this is transparently a goal of this program.
You really have to be in it for the service aspect.