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Anything involving government is very low pressure.

I am a consultant, and I have a financial client where everything is an emergency and a government client where nothing is an emergency.

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Low pressure and also you have to sacrifice a goat just to actually GET anything to do. Went stir crazy.

Good to know. I always had a suspicion government would move slowly, but I didn't consider it might so slow to that you don't get anything done. EDIT: Upon further reading of the previous statement, I now realize how ridiculously obvious it would be that government gets nothing done :)

Even "cool" government jobs move at glacial paces. I used to be an engineer at NASA and got to work on all manner of awesome stuff. But the cost in soul-crushing-boredom is high.

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