Government work should be a refuge, not a gold mine.Do it sooner rather than later.
California is being broken by its own government, state and local. You can see it when you live in other states.
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My workshy, scounger BIL who makes $100k per year working for the Dept of Correction got "laid off" last week. The CA civil service definition of "laid off" is evidently quite differnt than my own: He was given 4 weeks of paid time to wander the halls filled with other workshy scoungers to see if any other departments would put him on their payroll. After 27 years of playing cards and wasting time sucking the public teat alongside thousands of other civil service zombies, he had no problem finding a sympathetic partner in crime. He will, of course, milk the next three weeks at home on paid leave before reporting for "duty" - doing absolutely nothing (the only thing he is qualified for).
The Prison Industrial Complex is quite powerful. Republican busybodies like it because it keeps the "Godless dope addicts" off the streets, and the big government Democrats like it because it keeps the union dues money flowing into the pockets of the politicians.
We jail far too many people, and the system is designed to encourage that.
The bottom ain't here yet...look for the special interests to start eating each other for the spoils as a sign that the bottom is near. Never forget that CA votes some of the most liberal Dems into office (state & federal)...so expect everything in the playbook to be thrown at this...including that solvent states are out of touch and should tax and spend more is the problem, tax at national level to prevent escape by leaving the state, etc.
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