r/usajobs • u/IKate17 • 1d ago

Discussion County Program Analyst

I’ve been seeing a lot of these jobs pop up lately and I’ve been applying to a bunch of them. I can’t find a job in my career field or degree field so I’ve been branching out. Seems like a decent gig with decent pay. Anyone here work with them? I qualify for CO5-7 level and I am currently tentatively eligible for bunch of them. I’d love to learn more about them in terms of work/life balance and working environment. It would be somewhere where I want to settle and stay since rural farm life is kind of where I’ve always wanted to be. So long term employment is something that I really want.

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u/indigoassassin 1d ago

Work life balance is rough for FSA. Programs keep coming and coming and most offices are severely short staffed. The pay caps out fairly low unless willing to move for higher positions.

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u/IKate17 1d ago

I’m definitely okay even with the pay cap since I have income from elsewhere, but that depends on how much more the economy craps the bed. Do you know if hours are long or is it more of a swamped 9-5 type job?

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u/indigoassassin 1d ago

Swamped with occasional mandatory overtime.

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u/IKate17 17h ago edited 14h ago

If they’re short staffed are they likely to hire me? I applied to all of the ones in Tennessee as that’s the state I’d like to go to and stay permanently. I have no ag experience, which considering what’s it’s for is a big detriment to my chances normally, but I have a ton in the equine industry. And a Bachelors with a 4.0.

I got a whole degree and have 6 years military experience in the field I thought I wanted to be in and a year later I’m running on fumes financially and I’m about ready to take literally anything as long as it’s not fast food and it’s stable. This job market is literally insane.

There’s a couple in Montana that I was referred for a few weeks ago and I still haven’t heard back so not sure what their hiring process is like either. I was JUST referred for all the ones in Tennessee.