Government Ladder Climbing - 101

Get a job. Work at a C+ pace with C+ effort. You'll stand out as a go-getter compared to your co-workers. Go as high as you can in dept, which often isn't likely. Government workers camp out in their jobs for decades. But you want to get ahead? Ok, we begin to build your own kingdom. Convince boss you're overwhelmed, and you need a low level assistant. Get assistant. Make assistant do most of your job. Start creating busy work for assistant. Come up with nebulous ideas, pitch them to boss, probably approved. As your assistant can't keep doing what was your work, and new work. Time for one more assistant! Ask for, and get second assistant. Well shit, there's not enough work to make to assistance even look busy. So let's add useless, procedures and policies. let's make it difficult for the public to work with us. Slow things down to a crawl. Now you got some work for the assistants! Once two assistants are finally overwhelmed, higher third assistant. Wash, rinse, repeat. Before you know it you have two dozen people reporting to you, and you need to break people off into specialized teams. That means you need an assistant manager! Now the assistant manager can work to go the respective teams. And you are no longer just a manager, you are a full-on department manager, with direct reports, who have direct reports. in most government jobs, the more people you have working underneath you, the more you make.

And that my friends is how it federal government employee creates $150,000 a year job, out of thin air. With a seven-figure budget. When in reality, your previous salary of $50,000 a year was plenty to do the job that needs to be done.