Is it worth it to work for local or federal government?

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Depends on what’s important to you.

The biggest advantage I see in working for federal government is that you could change jobs within the feds and your benefits and leave will go with you. If you change companies in private sector then in most cases you start over on your leave/retirement/benefits. I’m getting ready to start with my fourth agency as a federal employee.

I have only had one state job but it was the best insurance I have ever had. Probably depends on state though.

A lot of people also find the stability to be worth it for both…and retirement and pensions.

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Health and human services, two DoD agencies, Veterans Affairs. Haven’t started VA job yet so no opinion but the work is internal controls related. DoD agencies were not accounting titles but had some accounting duties, controls, AR, AP, basic spend reporting. I wasn’t a fan of the culture at those two DoD agencies. I contribute it to the fact that I never service and the culture is very heavy military influenced. HHS culture was better for me, more relaxed. The work was very simple AP. Most of my day was spent reviewing/approving payments.

I’d def say from my experience that a lot of fed roles may list with title of accountant and may even have a general accounting description listed, but not many sound like true accounting work once you get into interview and ask questions. Depends on what you are wanting so ask good question in the interview. But also be prepared to still start a role and find out it’s still not quite what was discussed in interview either.

At the moment wlb and stability are far more important. Thanks for the insight!

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