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As a former government employee, I doubt they work directly for the government. The government loves to outsource everything remotely technical to contractors
by wing-_-nuts 3y ago
As a former government employee, I doubt they work directly for the government. The government loves to outsource everything remotely technical to contractors in my (dated) experience. The GS and even the SES pay scales they offer are laughable in comparison to what one can get in the private sector.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoCorrect, but if you do 5 years in the military, and 15 in FedGov, you can then retire at your GS-15 / SES grade and get a pension + guaranteed healthcare. Then you start your 2nd career at GD or Lockheed or Microsoft, et al, and get 300k per annum.
- wing-_-nuts 3y agoI think you're really overstating it. I know guys that have done the military / fed / contractor shuffle. Getting above gs 12 damned near impossible, and when they figure that out, they go into contracting for ~100k+ positions, but it's not 300k. If you play it right, yeah you can fully retire at 55 with a small pension and (hugely important!) health insurance, but someone who went tech sector from the jump can easily retire at 40 if they really set their minds to it. For other fields though, it can make sense.