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Government work in, corporate work out among college grads
Sacramento Bee ^ | June 7, 2016 | Jon Ortiz

Posted on 06/07/2016 7:27:59 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Nearly one in five college graduates want to work in federal, state or local government or for a nonprofit organization, according to a new survey, and they’re willing to take less salary for meaningful, fun work.

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State of California worker. 15 paid holidays plus vacation, sick leave, family leave, retire at 50 with 90 percent salary, life time medical and actually a very competitive wage. What's not to like. Also you can't get fired.
1 posted on 06/07/2016 7:27:59 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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It is lots of money and benefits with no accountability and a lifetime pension. Yeah Socialism!


2 posted on 06/07/2016 7:30:36 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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What is the difference between the USA and Venezuela?

Ten years.


3 posted on 06/07/2016 7:32:15 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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They all want to be Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.


4 posted on 06/07/2016 7:34:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If an illegal-alien quarantine saves just one child's life, it will be worth it.)
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meaningful work is 98% NOT found in government buildings, sorry about that boys

try the real world (if Obama accidententally leave any jobs still alive there)


5 posted on 06/07/2016 7:46:41 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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Just saying.... I have a young relative who is working for a state gov. He is three years out of a Harvard of the South type college. He bought a Chevy Volt and part of the reason is he can plug in for free while at work. He is right of center.


6 posted on 06/07/2016 7:49:04 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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Wait until they have kids.


7 posted on 06/07/2016 7:50:49 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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It is lots of money and benefits with no accountability and a lifetime pension. Yeah Socialism!

Any corporation MIGHT fail so said employees had BETTER put their savings into their own account and not plan on relying on anyone but themselves.

Government work is more predictable, at least in states that aren't in trouble. I know that I worked for the BENEFITS, especially the health benefits, and retirement. Salaries come and go but bennies are the bonus.

8 posted on 06/07/2016 7:54:36 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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9 posted on 06/07/2016 7:58:13 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If liberals were in charge of the oceans, in 5 years the water would be gone.)
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Can’t fault them for it.


10 posted on 06/07/2016 8:29:54 PM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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State of California worker. 15 paid holidays plus vacation, sick leave, family leave, retire at 50 with 90 percent salary, life time medical and actually a very competitive wage. What's not to like. Also you can't get fired.

By the time these beheadable millenials are ready to retire at their age of 50, the State of California will be long dead and gone.

11 posted on 06/07/2016 8:32:11 PM PDT by Vision Thing (Vote Trump!)
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They want to work for Government....but they want “meaningful, fun work...”

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA


12 posted on 06/07/2016 8:48:03 PM PDT by PGR88
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Probably won’t get the pension either.


13 posted on 06/07/2016 9:02:16 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Jim from C-Town

The author has the most overused and fundamentally flawed reasoning I have ever read. Dumbass


14 posted on 06/07/2016 11:47:26 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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The government would do well to release forty percent of its workers and pare down.


15 posted on 06/08/2016 2:30:49 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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I went to my daughter's high school graduating class baccalaureate on Sunday. The service had a theme-LOOK UP!. This refers to this particular demographic's propensity to bury themselves in social media in general, and cell phones in particular. The clergy, from different denominations, were in with the theme, as were other students and two smug, haughty and preachy faculty members.

The teachers went on incessantly, beating the kids up without mercy for about an hour, a demeaning spectacle for them to endure on such a day, and in such a place.

Obviously of the leftist political persuasion, the teachers deviated from their diatribe only to exhort the kids to public service, while demeaning private sector employment by equating it to "greed". My daughter is going to study business, and took offense to this, which made me proud. She believes that those who are successful in business cannot be so without "helping" others. Good point that.

For years, parents have been the ones that education chose to blame for the failures of our public education system, now it seems the blame is going to cell phones and social media, at least, that's what I understood from the interminable beat-down of this poor senior class, who had to endure it in silence.

I too, have bristled at kids burying themselves in their phones, but since the left seems to hate this so much, I'm reevaluating........

16 posted on 06/08/2016 4:21:59 AM PDT by wayoverontheright (a falling camel attracts many knives.......)
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The teachers who berated those students were right about this. I have noticed that most of the younger workers in my company seem to work in a state of constant distraction with all the stupid electronic devices they use — and it really shows in the poor quality of their work.


17 posted on 06/08/2016 5:25:20 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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I can't blame anyone for pursuing this career path -- even if the pay, benefits and working conditions were worse in government than in the corporate world.

I'm in the process of leaving the corporate world and setting up my own shop. One of the things that turns me off about the corporate environment is that it functions just like a government bureaucracy.

18 posted on 06/08/2016 5:30:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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You are probably correct here, my feeling sitting there was that a baccalaureate was not the place for this. The education establishment had had 18 years with these kids, captive in their classrooms, these particular two having had at least four with this class, to teach, preach, and mold behavior. A graduation is an achievement. A milestone. Class should have been over. My daughter and her (conservative) friends who do not walk into poles while viewing cell phones admittedly are in the minority.

Just a modicum of praise for their achievement, perhaps just a little good finding from the podium may have placated me. I felt it was an acknowledgement by the teachers that they had failed, and this was just one last chance to grandstand for the parents, with the message “well, we tried”. Seemed more like an advertisement for the school faculty, at the expense of students, not all of whom needed this particular sermon.

I didn’t mention it, but the audience was decidedly ethnically mixed, and the day also included a poem from a black student, message about the suffering of blacks “still” (the name of the poem) having not gone away. The only message of the day that wasn’t on topic.


19 posted on 06/08/2016 7:33:20 AM PDT by wayoverontheright (a falling camel attracts many knives.......)
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