Lf gov't job opening (UPDATE: it's been filled!)

[Wayne]

Highly unlikely that too many retirees are going to want to move to DC to work full-time. May the most qualified person get the job regardless of age...

The main thrust of me wanting to see a younger person get this is because I mentor young people, I know what they are up against in professional photography. They ask me how do they break in like I did and I tell them I have not a clue because I did some 30 years ago.

I don't plan on retiring, or at least that is the plan. I will be 50 in a year and a half and at least for now, I can pretty much edge my competition out, just too established, too forward thinking, and keep on cranking out fresh work like nobody's business. So I feel like I have to give back a bit. I am going to travel with one of my students to Cuba in May for the entire month. He is 22, has great vision, wants to do work that would not compete with but be complementary of what I want to do down there.

Lots of retirement aged folks out there who shoot LF as a hobby who chose to be a dentist, engineer, hardware store owner, etc are going to perhaps apply to this in order to do something in their retirement years.

More power to them but I am rooting for the young guy this time around...the guy like me who at age 17 was figuring out how to "Break in".

[Old-N-Feeble]

Highly unlikely that too many retirees are going to want to move to DC to work full-time. May the most qualified person get the job regardless of age...

No offense but... ha ha ha ha ha... (big breath)... ha ha ha ha ha!!

Maybe if the young applicant is one or more of the hiring officials' close friend or lover.

[Daniel Stone]

I applied. I'm 27, and desperately need a valid, paying reason to leave LA...

[Kodachrome25]

I applied. I'm 27, and desperately need a valid, paying reason to leave LA...

Interesting, that was exactly the age I left L.A. I had $500 in my pocket after a divorce, a little bit of credit card debt and a staff position at a newspaper lined up. Life started after L.A., I never looked back....

Good luck in your app!

[goamules]

One thing I'll tell you, this one job is all over the internet now. I think it will be funny when their applications go from 1 or 2 a week, to 50, to 500 in a day! It's probably officially the Last LF Film Photography Job In The World. Other forums have people debating digital vs film, and trying to figure out why the client can be so stupid as to require film.

[Corran]

Other forums have people debating digital vs film, and trying to figure out why the client can be so stupid as to require film.

I've seen that. Pretty nauseating.

I imagine they'll have at least a thousand applicants. Probably more.

O-n-F, enough negativity please.

[Old-N-Feeble]

I've seen that. Pretty nauseating.

I imagine they'll have at least a thousand applicants. Probably more.

O-n-F, enough negativity please.

Perhaps you should apply to be a moderator, mister policeman. I speak only the truth as I've experienced it for a quarter century of so-called 'government service'.

The smiley-faces negate the negativity.

Truth is often the bitterest pill to swallow.

[Corran]

Luckily, your truth is not the universal truth...

[djdister]

So let me relate some more thoughts based on 25 years (and going) of federal service.

1. The job is not "wired" for one person. If it was, they would probably only have advertised it for 5-7 days, instead of for 2 full weeks.
2. Unless the selected person has prior federal service, the top salary to start as a GS-12, step 1 is $76,378 per year. If you don't qualify as a GS-12, then starting salary as a GS-11, step 1 will be $63,722.
3. As noted before, your resume had better state the same level of experience that you claim on the assessment questionnaire. They state this in the assessment questionnaire "THE RESUME OR APPLICATION MATERIALS YOU SUBMIT FOR THIS ANNOUNCEMENT MUST SUPPORT THE ANSWER YOU CLAIM UNDER THIS AND OTHER QUESTIONS. IF NOT, YOU WILL BE FOUND NOT QUALIFIED OR YOUR SCORE WILL BE LOWERED."
4. In order to make the "Best Qualified" list, all of your answers on the questionnaire will have to be at least a 'D' or better yet, 'E' ("I am regarded as expert in performing this task...").
5. This statement in the vacancy announcement will really separate out those who may be considered: "Within these categories, applicants referred to the selecting official that are eligible for Veteran's Preference will receive selection priority over Non-Veterans." Veteran's preference for competitive government hiring is in law. For more information see: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-over...ces/vet-guide/
6. If there are a lot of applicants who meet the standard of either "Well Qualified" or "Best Qualified," they can choose to only forward the "Best Qualified" applicants to the hiring official for consideration.

[ImSoNegative]

I don't know the why or wherefore, but this has been posted before (maybe 10-15 years ago?) and no one was ever hired. Might have been budget issues etc. Who knows. I know some many years ago I threw my hat in the ring and later I got a letter saying the job was not going to be filled but did not specify why. I wasn't sure I wanted it even if I had gotten it but I rolled the dice. This no longer interests me at this time in my life, but it could be a good gig for someone younger if this offering is real.

I remember that several years ago, I wondered who got it. I didn't apply but never really heard anything else about it