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Government contracting sucks. I retired from the Air Force, and a contractor wanted to hire me as a C++ developer. At my enlisted pay grade. Because my retirement pay made up for the difference. I became a corporate whore for three times the amount. And now I work for one of the best companies to work for when it comes to culture and value. So glad I didn't take the offer. I just laughed at them.
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@iAmNaN its that gut feeling which told me that a lot of people wouldn't dig working with these people man
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@AleCx04 do want to make a point that I had worked with these folks for several years prior to retirement, so I knew them. They were decent folks, but at the end of the day, there was a reason they were government contractors, and not in the private sector. It's sad, because some of them actually had talent.
I guess it has to do with the kind of background that I have. But I always get contacted by government contractors for development jobs. On one side I think: oh nice, stable income and benefits plus the addition of this kind of work to my resume.
On the other I cannot help but yawn at how incredibly boring these jobs sound. For those that might recall some of my comments from certain posts: i am a job mercenary.
I will code in anything that pays me well and i won't give two shits about the stack.
But man, some of these fuckers can really put me to sleep while reading their specifications or projects requirements and I cannot help but feel completely and utterly BORED.
In short: si pero no.
rant
boring ass jobs