One More Month Until Re-retirement
Ex-Fed has now been working as a contractor for two months and I have only one more month to go. The contract is up on March 5 and I have decided that I will not extend my time on it.I really enjoy the work here at the Agency but I really dislike the daily getting up at 6 a.m. and riding the Metro to work and then back home afterwards. True, the money is wonderful and the people are great to work with, but I want to do things on my own time during the week because I AM RETIRED.
The HR staff here at the agency are basically good people but they have no ambition to learn position classification. These are supposed to be full performance HR Specialists and they have the position classification duties in their position descriptions but they know nothing of it. There is a new Classification Team Leader who has some real good - but ambitious - ideas about how the classification program should be run. I hope she is able to get them running but I am not going to bet the farm on it.
I have been working with some of the managers and branch chiefs regarding their classification needs. Most have no understanding of the process and could not care. They only want the results to be positive in their way. I cannot blame them at all since the HR staff does not know the classification process either. The way it has been here is that when a position description comes to the HR office for classification, the specialist rubber-stamps it and gives whatever General Schedule grade that was requested without even going to the Office of Personnel Management classification standards. This may seem like a good idea but it isn't!
I realize that this entry has probably put almost everyone asleep. When I get home in the evening and tell Mrs. Ex-Fed about what I did during the day or something funny to me as a federal classifier, her eyes glaze over real fast. I spent 18 years of my life doing this kind of work and it is interesting to me - and I must be pretty good at it in order to be hired for a consultant job and not fired yet!
Well, as I said earlier, I will be going back to being a retired Federal worker in another month and doing my own thing - when I want to do it. Mrs. Ex-Fed has us booked on a Caribbean cruise the first part of April and I am looking forward to 7 days and nights of luxury and relaxing. I am planning to play more golf this Spring and Summer as well as doing my volunteer work as a butterfly tour guide for kids.
These are all things you can do when you are retired. A few months of work is great but RETIREMENT IS WONDERFUL. I still recommend that everyone retires as soon as they possibly can do it.
posted by Ex-Fed @ 9:29 AM
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