Man & Work

January, 1980

Working for the FedsIf you sign on with Uncle Sam, you risk getting stuck with a humdrum job and having friends blame you personally for every Government blunder. In addition, you risk being decribed by the only President you have as "underworked, overpaid and insulated from the consequences of incompetence." On the other hand, there are just about 3,000,000 nonelected Civil Service jobs in the Federal merit system, many neither dull nor trivial, and if your priorities are decent pay,...