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Feds, GS level question.
So I'm being a little nosey, but not b/c I want to know how much you make. I'm just curious what job series/title you have and what your GS level is, I've heard my office is very competative.
I'll share mine so I wont look like a hypocrite. I started in late 2007 and was a 9, I am now a 13 as an analyst.
Re: Feds, GS level question.
I started in 2001 and was in a career ladder position with promotion potential to a 12. I went 7, 9, 11, 12 from 2001 - 2005. In 2008 or 2009 I got a merit promotion to a 13, this was as part of a big agency wide expansion in which my job changed significantly.
If I want to go any higher I would have to leave my current position and compete for a new job. GS 14's are pretty hard to come by in my agency. I would need to make a lateral transfer to a job that has promotion potential to a 14 or 15. Since I am not interested in doing that right now, I have contented myself with my every other year WIGI, for now. Once DD is in school I may be more interested in moving to a different part of the agency in order to attempt to go for a 14 or 15. I am not interested in managing though, so who kows I may stay where I am.
ETA: Just about everyone in my agency is a "health insurance specialist." I do NOTHING that has to do with health insurance. Several years ago my boss offered to reclassify my job as a public affairs specialist, but that would have meant I would have lost seniority. If there ever was a RIF (Reduction in Force) I would have been much lower down on the list. So, I ended up keeping the meaningless title.
I started in October 2009 as a GS-9 and am currently a GS-12. I'm eligible for promotion to a GS-13 in January but it's a competitve promotion (previously, I would have been eligible for a 13 automatically after 3 years at the 12, so January 2014. but they recently changed it for my position.) After I'm a 13, I can get promoted again (but again, merit-based) to a GS-14 as an appeals officer and after that I could become a judge but that takes me out of the GS level. But all of these promotions would be within the same division/office doing higher level versions of the work I do now. I'm eligible for step-increases as I'm waiting for a promotion.
I'm an attorney advisor. As you can see, I think my job has great promotion potential.
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This how I feel too, I'm content to not be in a position that requires me to work more OT than I am right now and all the managers here travel more than I'm comfortable with with little kid(s). I also don't feel like I would be good in a supervisory position, my supervisor has had to go testify on the Hill a few times and I am no where ready to do that for my agency yet.