Yup. I am an engineer and have worked government and private sector. Private sector pays way more and is more exciting because of the hugely reduced bureaucracy. If you have a fun career you love government can really kill the passion.

But if your goal is stable employment with good work/life balance and guaranteed raises? Government is fantastic.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I haven’t found a WFH government position, so even the work-life balance is terrible.

[–] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I was in government my work life balance coming into the office two days a week was better than now when I am working full time WFH in private industry, so I guess that’s very subjective.

At NASA they regularly told us, “the rocket won’t crash if you clock out at 40 hours. Go home to your families.” A lot of government positions you could literally just check out and sleep all day for weeks at a time and nobody will even notice.

[–] ssfckdt@mastodon.cloud 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as it's not in meetings, I guess 😂