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I can honestly say I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as a federal worker.
Right now I'm working on my resume. I'm open to work, preferably in finance as I have my accounting degree. If you know of anyone hiring please let me know.
As I have mentioned before, please do not post your political beliefs as I am not interested in debates or opinions. During this time, please remember that government employees are workers at risk of losing their job. It's scary as most of us have dedicated our careers to government and government operations is all that most of us know and now will be forced to look outside for other options and start over. No matter which side everyone is one, no one wants to lose their job so please be mindful of this. Remember that government employees are humans too and it is a very scary time for most of us and our families.
I mean, I have literally turned more people than I can count, family members, friends, strangers, simply by making the fucking effort to talk to them without being an entitled dick just because I'm smarter. Things like quietly discussing the state of politics and how the economy works, the scale of deep-time and how it makes biblical stories more fantastic, not less, how biology and sexuality work and how many people are different than they've been led to believe, and just talking about their own personal insecurities. I have had people who identify as incels and nazis follow up with me years later thanking me for saving their lives because they were dumb and not thinking clearly. You don't have to believe any of this, but I know you can change people one-on-one, and our challenge is to do this larger-scale WHILE still trying to make more effective political actions.
As individuals most of these people are NOT "more interested in hating minorities" that's what they do, not what they are, we are giving many of them way too much intellectual credit, the racism has always been just the wallpaper that's been plastered over their simple insecurities and fears, and providing a better story and giving people a chance to feel heard and express their insecurity and addressing it, that does far, far more to change the world than thinking that some magical revolution is going to purge the nation of everyone who clings to stories that are appalling to you because you know better. A lot of people don't know better.
Granted, we cannot treat individuals the same way we treat populations, but you and many other people seem to be forgetting that WE STILL WILL HAVE TO SHARE OUR COUNTRY WITH THEM so we need to be better about our feelings of resentment and desires for atonement and "justice." Our goal should be finding a way to do this, otherwise we start getting talk about "rounding people up" and "reeducation camps" and "revolutions" and I kinda don't want to see America's left become the next Israel. (Not that we could ever organize a large enough movement without it breaking down into seven hundred different forms of infighting progressive groups.)