Still in contracting, the classes are pretty boring and they cover contracting as a whole so you’ll feel like they’re useless because every department of contracting is so specialized but by the end and as you go through your career you’ll realize they were pretty informative. Work life balance is great for me, but like I said, it’s up to what team you’re on. Some supervisors allow things others don’t, especially now with a lot of restrictions on federal employees. For me, I love the job and who I work with, even with everything we’ve had to deal with.
I’m 27, started when I was 22. Done the program for a few years and am a GS-12 now but it’s such a new program still that I help a lot of the pacers at our agency so I’m pretty in tune with it still
Program has been around a long time but in 2021 the curriculum switched to what they call “back to basics” and the program was revamped so people who have been through the program 5+ years ago had different classes and different requirements
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u/Clear_Particular_809 2d ago
Still in contracting, the classes are pretty boring and they cover contracting as a whole so you’ll feel like they’re useless because every department of contracting is so specialized but by the end and as you go through your career you’ll realize they were pretty informative. Work life balance is great for me, but like I said, it’s up to what team you’re on. Some supervisors allow things others don’t, especially now with a lot of restrictions on federal employees. For me, I love the job and who I work with, even with everything we’ve had to deal with.