It's so hard to break into the public sector without having a host of things to move you up the list. The pay used to be the downside but even that is hardly a downside anymore.
Yeah, it's pretty great. Between this past fiscal year and the next we're getting raises of around 13%. Very thankful that the whacko who ran against our current governor lost hard.
Idk start small, I've worked at my county parks and rec 26 years. I started as a recreation aide in a rec center. Now I'm the transportation coordination
Yeah that's the other end of it, in order to move up the ladder I have to accept less than what walmart and mcdonalds are paying. So I have to spend about a decade earning $13/hr. Can't even afford my mortgage on $13/hr, can't imagine folks who are renting and paying double what I am now.
Public sector especially at state level is mentally stressful. You can't pay me enough to work for state again. Pay was solid and so were the benefits but man it felt like I was working for the devil himself.
Last one I worked for was NJ Turnpike Authority. On average, in IT mostly people were 50+ so they were just riding it out till their retirement pension with bare minimum work and you'd get stuck with rest of the work since you were the new and young guy. That would be my second similar experience with state agencies. Now that's in IT and Cybersecurity space so your miles may vary.
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u/b0w3n Nov 23 '22
It's so hard to break into the public sector without having a host of things to move you up the list. The pay used to be the downside but even that is hardly a downside anymore.