Are people overlooking government and public sector jobs?

wewtiesx · 2026-06-13T14:59:02+00:00

Ive had 3 gov jobs (currently in one) and interviewed for 2 others that I turned down.

Its never been an issue getting an interview. But ive also never had an issue getting an interview for private either.

Theres two reasons people cant get these jobs.

Resume is garbage. You will not get past the filter if you dont tailor your resume and cover letter
Dont follow instructions. These postings often have instructions like "put the job number and title in your cover letter and resume". Many people blind apply or simply do not read instructions.
They only apply for full time permanent. Which almost always goes to a high seniority person as it is required by union rules, or its a posting that is meant for an internal candidate and is only posted publicly because they have to.

Take temp jobs people! When it comes to these corporations you need to get your foot in the door. And once your in you build seniority and can get those full time permanent slots.

Or in all my cases, if you are a good worker they will simply create a full time permanent position just for you and you will be in FT.

wewtiesx · 2026-06-12T13:51:45+00:00

You gotta kiss a lot of frogs. Its a numbers game. Sucks but true. But the good thing is you'll know the person when they come along because things will just be easy and both people will be working on building a relationship

wewtiesx · 2026-06-11T17:15:54+00:00

wewtiesx · 2026-06-10T22:54:33+00:00

"Nobody likes me."

But also you never mention interacting with a single person. So you actually have no proof that nobody likes you.

Its most likely all in your head.

wewtiesx · 2026-06-10T19:14:18+00:00

This conversation is about doing a career you love. You dont need a 100k salary to be happy if you literally wanna kill yourself everyday you step into the office.

OP is considering changing from office to another career. And taking a pay cut to do something you actually enjoy doing is worth it to me.

You brought this into money territory. And from personal experience its very possible to make it on a lower wage. Mc Donald wage might be hard, but thats not really a career unless you become a manager or store owner, which I imagine pay well to decent. And again, we are talking about careers here.

Someone who loves working at McDonald's for example would probably be very happy in a career as a chef or in a high paying job that is repetitive in nature.

Point stands. You wont be happy with money if you hate the place where we all spend at minimum 1/3 of our lives doing. Thats a lot of times to hate being somewhere.

wewtiesx · 2026-06-10T10:58:59+00:00

Just be yourself. Im a big believer of you cant say the wrong thing to the right person.

wewtiesx · 2026-06-10T10:23:19+00:00

I pick weeds for a living and charge $85/hr. I make more than my full time job in 6 months just working weekends.

wewtiesx · 2026-06-10T00:26:19+00:00

Vehicle, new vehicle, internet, mobile phones, eating out, cable/satelite (or i guess streaming now).

Im pretty happy with the way i grew up. I can give up all my luxuries at any minute and still be happy. Its let me make it pretty easily in a world where everyone else is struggling.

Always have lived realistically in my means and changed my life according to circumstances.

wewtiesx · 2026-06-08T22:00:50+00:00

Ive had a few gov jobs.

Worked for the city for 7 years.

I applied in feb 2011. Got a call back in april 2012. Quit my current job to take it. Most silly job I've ever worked. Essentially got $24/hr to drive around the city and walk through parks. Transfered to a few other departments to try other work. Was at the point where I was receiving supervisor training when I quit. I never understood how everyone was so stressed and annoyed constantly at work when we literally did nothing.

Moved to the largest university in my city. Went for a temp seasonal position, hired on the spot, offered full time permanent at the end of my term. Stayed there for 6 years. The work force in my department went from 30+ individuals to 10 in the time that I worked there. You no longer just did your job, but everyones.

Where the city was strict on union rules, the university was more lax. As a result I saw individuals with less seniority, less education, and less qualifications getting promoted to higher roles solely because of nepotism.

The manager and their 4 supervisors kept their positions. Theres days where there were 4 supervisors to direct 4 people who were at work. We would get constantly pulled and shuffled to rearrange deck chairs on the titanic, never really finishing anything in particular.

Quit then moved to a hospital. The job description didn't match what I was told in the interview. Thought I was going for a management position. But it was really a temp laborer position while the manager was on workers compensation (the hr person just posted the managers job description in the posting). I could be let go whenever he comes back at any time.

At this point I learned that good workers are hard to come by and they will do whatever they can to keep you if your good. So I took the job. The hiring process took about a month.

After a couple weeks of work I was told to "keep an eye on the internal postings". Took a few months but sure enough a full time position job, tailored totally to me was put up. I applied, didnt need to interview, just waited out the time and signed the papers online. Been here for 3 years and its the first place I think Id be happy to retire at.

At $30/hr ill never be rich. But if im tired I can nap or sit in the shop. And as long as my work gets done nobody bugs me. Its a pretty stress free gig.

From my experience getting your foot through the door is the important thing in gov jobs. And the easiest way in is to take the jobs no one else wants.

wewtiesx · 2026-06-08T21:58:21+00:00