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Ask HN: Any jobs that don't force you to always be advancing career wise?

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Re: Ask HN: Any jobs that don't force you to always be advancing career wise?

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Post by throw10920 »

Vilian wrote: post #123
scarface_74 wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you checked on what’s going on in the government this year?

History tells that it isn't recommended to get a job in a fascist government, or one bordering it, maybe change to a democratic country

Please don't engage in political flamewar on HN. As Orwell pointed out almost eight decades ago: "The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’."[1] and is now obviously only a dog-whistle for fellow ideologues. This does not belong on HN.

[1] https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

Re: Ask HN: Any jobs that don't force you to always be advancing career wise?

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Post by kweingar »

mrcsharp wrote: post #138
kweingar wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the government was a dynamic work environment, it would burn just as much money. But instead of saying "the project went over budget", they'd say "we executed a strategic pivot." Instead of employees "stagnating", employees would launch all sorts of initiatives and then abandon them after getting promoted. Instead of maintaining legacy systems for decades, teams would turn down systems so that employees can work o…

> But instead of saying "the project went over budget", they'd say "we executed a strategic pivot." Yeah, politicians already do this. They use different words but to the same effect. I am not going to pretend I have the ultimate solution to all of this, but the idea that government employees get to sit there, do bare minimum for the entirety of their careers, and without any desire to improve anything for the sake o…

If you want private sector work ethic, you gotta pay private sector salaries.

(Many federal employees have a better work ethic than the average private sector worker. But you can't make that an expectation if you're paying less than they could make elsewhere.)

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