[Marysecretary]

My husband retired from the Postal Service. Good job, good benefits, decent retirement, although he can't get social security benefits. He advises anyone to get a good federal job if you can. He loved working for the post office and would still be doing it if he could have been transferred to a facility closer to our town. He'd go in at 2:30 a.m. and drive an hour to work every day. He rarely missed a day unless there was an ice storm. It got to be too much for him and he opted for an early out, but he misses his job still today and it's been 10 years since he retired.

[Alberta's Child]

He advises anyone to get a good federal job if you can.

Maybe this is just a personality thing, but in my field I couldn't imagine a more useless thing than a career in government. In fact, any resume I receive from someone who has worked extensively in government is immediately put in the "rejected" pile. In my business, government employment is synonymous with a lack of ambition.