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In article <476a9i$j82@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, marks84609@aol.com (MarkS84609) writes:
|> My experience as a civil servant is that I could increase my salary by
|> 25-30% by moving to
|> industry. I have NEVER, and I have checked several times, found a job for
|> which I was
|> qualified which did not offer more in salary, benefits etc. If anything
|> these days, industry
|> offers more security and stability in some fields as Government work. The
|> "old" days of
|> a "good government job" i.e. security and a decent wage are OVER. If
|> anyone is getting
|> rich in government these days it is the political appointees, senior
|> executives, and
|> outright crooks. The rank and file are existing and perhaps even make some
|> minor
|> headway here and there but no one is getting rich. 
|> 

You are not going to any company in this area and get a raise. I do not
think it possible to get rich in this business right now but currently in
this area anyway the pay is considerably higher on the civil servant side.
I do know that it is not necessarily good to be a civil servant right now for
NASA because there is going to be serious contraction soon. No more
buy outs I would imagine. If Congress gets what it wants then we may
actually see a civil servant force layoff. So the point is that no one
thinks there is a way to get rich in this business. If you are bright and
talented and young and want to succeed go into another line of business.
This is obvious. Do not think that there is a cushy civil servant job
waiting for you because it is not true. Do not think that you are walking
into a secure career with a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow because
it just isn't so. Clearly this is the case. This profession relies
entirely on the whims of government to sustain it. Currently the federal
government has chosen to cut way back on NASA funding. NASA has chosen
to handle this by trying to eliminate the market for talent and thereby
forcibly drive wages down. That is all that is being stated here. No one
is really complaining that civil servants are getting rich. I know some
people who jumped to NASA for as much as a 50% pay increase. But 50% of
nothing is nothing. Overall we are all getting a lot less than we would
be making if we had more foresight and went into a different field.

Tom.

-- My opinions are just that.