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Govt Job or Private job???

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    Waqas Ahmad Abbasi
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    in your opinion which is better and which type of job should i select in future.?? Govt Job : Less salary than private sector, Less working timings(usually 6 to 7 Hours). Privae job : High salaries, 9 hour + late sittings, high work load, no time for family or friends. BTW am software engineer.

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      in your opinion which is better and which type of job should i select in future.?? Govt Job : Less salary than private sector, Less working timings(usually 6 to 7 Hours). Privae job : High salaries, 9 hour + late sittings, high work load, no time for family or friends. BTW am software engineer.

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      BobJanova
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      That depends whether you care more about money or about having time to do other things and having a balanced life. I'd take the first one, for sure.

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        That depends whether you care more about money or about having time to do other things and having a balanced life. I'd take the first one, for sure.

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        Waqas Ahmad Abbasi
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        I recently switched job , thinking that office is near to home so i could save some time but useless. :(

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          in your opinion which is better and which type of job should i select in future.?? Govt Job : Less salary than private sector, Less working timings(usually 6 to 7 Hours). Privae job : High salaries, 9 hour + late sittings, high work load, no time for family or friends. BTW am software engineer.

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          dan sh
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          In my opinion, I would choose a job that I like, I am happy doing and which does not mess up my work-life balance.

          N3rdy wrote:

          which type of job should i select in future

          Whatever suits you and your expectations from a job. You are asking people to make your life decisions. I don't think it's a good idea.

          "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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            In my opinion, I would choose a job that I like, I am happy doing and which does not mess up my work-life balance.

            N3rdy wrote:

            which type of job should i select in future

            Whatever suits you and your expectations from a job. You are asking people to make your life decisions. I don't think it's a good idea.

            "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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            Waqas Ahmad Abbasi
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            Am asking because am confuse, and decision so far i made related to my career are not really helpful.

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              in your opinion which is better and which type of job should i select in future.?? Govt Job : Less salary than private sector, Less working timings(usually 6 to 7 Hours). Privae job : High salaries, 9 hour + late sittings, high work load, no time for family or friends. BTW am software engineer.

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              OriginalGriff
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              I refer the honourable gentleman to today's Dilbert[^]

              If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

              "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
              "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                I refer the honourable gentleman to today's Dilbert[^]

                If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

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                Super Lloyd
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                Dear Alice strikes again! ;P

                A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                • W Waqas Ahmad Abbasi

                  in your opinion which is better and which type of job should i select in future.?? Govt Job : Less salary than private sector, Less working timings(usually 6 to 7 Hours). Privae job : High salaries, 9 hour + late sittings, high work load, no time for family or friends. BTW am software engineer.

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                  Eytukan
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                  Its more of a subcontinent topic. I see my friends in Europe well salaried though they are government employed. May be it depends on the job as well.

                  Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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                    Dear Alice strikes again! ;P

                    A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                    My favourite Alice moment: Today, Asok learns...[^]

                    If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

                    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                    • W Waqas Ahmad Abbasi

                      in your opinion which is better and which type of job should i select in future.?? Govt Job : Less salary than private sector, Less working timings(usually 6 to 7 Hours). Privae job : High salaries, 9 hour + late sittings, high work load, no time for family or friends. BTW am software engineer.

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                      Lost User
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                      N3rdy wrote:

                      Govt Job : Less salary than private sector. Privae job : High salaries.

                      I've seen it work the other way around. Private job: penny pinchers. They try to find ways around minimum wage laws and often succeed. Govt job: your main job is to burn money. Developing software as a side effect is a nice bonus. But it depends.

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                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                        My favourite Alice moment: Today, Asok learns...[^]

                        If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

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                        Super Lloyd
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                        It is excellent indeed! ^^

                        A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                          in your opinion which is better and which type of job should i select in future.?? Govt Job : Less salary than private sector, Less working timings(usually 6 to 7 Hours). Privae job : High salaries, 9 hour + late sittings, high work load, no time for family or friends. BTW am software engineer.

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                          ZurdoDev
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                          no time for family or friends.

                          Maybe you need to look a little harder at private sector jobs. This has not been my experience at all.

                          There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                            in your opinion which is better and which type of job should i select in future.?? Govt Job : Less salary than private sector, Less working timings(usually 6 to 7 Hours). Privae job : High salaries, 9 hour + late sittings, high work load, no time for family or friends. BTW am software engineer.

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                            Pualee
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                            N3rdy wrote:

                            Govt Job : Less salary than private sector, Less working timings(usually 6 to 7 Hours).
                            Privae job : High salaries, 9 hour + late sittings, high work load, no time for family or friends.

                            These assumptions are entirely wrong. It all depends on where you are and how tight the budget is. Instead, you should figure out what business domain you want to work in (health care, finance, etc), and find a good job, be it gov't or otherwise. Staying in a single business domain will help your expertise carry across jobs even if the technologies used are a bit different.

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                              My favourite Alice moment: Today, Asok learns...[^]

                              If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

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                              Dan Neely
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                              Nt bad, but my favorite Alice moments are: Metalic, noisy and flushable?[^] and The king is dead, long live the queen.[^], even though I deposed[^] her a month ago.

                              Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                                in your opinion which is better and which type of job should i select in future.?? Govt Job : Less salary than private sector, Less working timings(usually 6 to 7 Hours). Privae job : High salaries, 9 hour + late sittings, high work load, no time for family or friends. BTW am software engineer.

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                                NickPace
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                                I currently work for a private contractor on a government contract. Best of both worlds! :)

                                -NP Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.

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                                  in your opinion which is better and which type of job should i select in future.?? Govt Job : Less salary than private sector, Less working timings(usually 6 to 7 Hours). Privae job : High salaries, 9 hour + late sittings, high work load, no time for family or friends. BTW am software engineer.

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                                  Nicolas Dorier
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                                  contract work : High salary, 4 Hours week, but family and friends are always working... then kill time writing codeproject article, and reading book... Curiously, this have the effect to make you even more valuable, so you can work even less. :p Not every contractor experiences that, I am lucky I guess, but I'm sure no private & Gov job get that :p

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