Bureau of Land Management Telecommunications Specialist job

[mmckenna]

If I was 20 years younger, I'd probably apply for this. But I ain't, so I'm not.

But maybe one of you meatheads is:

Telecommunications Specialist

Explore a new career with the BLM - where our people are our greatest natural resource.<br> <br> This positions is located within the Bureau of Land Management, California State Office, located in Susanville, CA. Information about the area can be found at <a...

www.usajobs.gov

 

[prcguy]

But its with the BLM. Nobody likes the BLM. If your legally target practicing on BLM land they will run the S/Ns of all your guns and try every excuse to confiscate them. I know people who have been riding an ATV on BLM land and not adhering to their rules like a single person ATV is for a single person and they caught two people on one and confiscated their $5k ATV and the owners couldn't get it back.

I would not want to be a BLM radio person up a tower, you would be a target for some.

 

[jhooten]

But, But, But, it is in California. Oh, and I'd have to give up my Fed LEO retirement, so NO!

 

[clovisb31]

Wonder how many 18 year old's would qualify for this position.
It's certainly not an entry level job. Reading through the job requirements it seems like they are looking for a candidate
that would have to have 20+ years in the profession to acquire all the requirements of this position.
I don't know how young people can break into the 2 way / comm tech field anymore ( and make any kind of living at it ).

 

[prcguy]

An 18yr old should not be applying for a job that requires system design and major decision making, that's for an experienced person. I started in the 2-way radio field right out of high school. I already had many years of mostly self taught knowledge and could repair a lot of stuff but I had to start as a quality control technician, they certainly were not going to hire me as a high level repair tech or engineering person.

It will take 10+ years at anything to become proficient and especially to be considered a "specialist". The job description seems like its looking for not only a technical person but someone to manage a department and very few people are capable of actually running or managing anything. That's an entire separate skill set that is more inherent than acquired.

Wonder how many 18 year old's would qualify for this position.
It's certainly not an entry level job. Reading through the job requirements it seems like they are looking for a candidate
that would have to have 20+ years in the profession to acquire all the requirements of this position.
I don't know how young people can break into the 2 way / comm tech field anymore ( and make any kind of living at it ).

 

[mmckenna]

Wonder how many 18 year old's would qualify for this position.

Well, like you said, none.

If an 18 year old wants to break into the industry, this isn't the position. 18 year olds get the cable pulling jobs, maybe doing some basic mobile installations under close supervision, being the gopher, helper, sweep out the shop.

 

[GlobalNorth]

GS-9? Near-poverty wages in northern California

 

[Project25_MASTR]

I am strangely qualified for this one.

Of course the challenge is weighing the bendefits of government jobs against the salary that could be being made in private employment.

 

[mmckenna]

I am strangely qualified for this one.

Of course the challenge is weighing the bendefits of government jobs against the salary that could be being made in private employment.

I've found it to usually comes out even in the long run. 25 years at my current place, and the pay is less than what I might make in the private sector, but the payoff comes when I retire.

I'd miss my current job, and my co-workers, if I bailed. But there's something tempting about working alone up near Susanville for the remainder of my working life. I doubt my wife would be amused, however. She'd either: a. not want to move, or b. not like me being gone for weeks on end (been there, done that).

Still, for the right person with the correct level of experience, that's a pretty good sounding job. The freedom of working alone in remote locations isn't for everyone, but for those that can do it, it's amazing.

Maybe I'll see if I can get fired next week….

 

[alcahuete]

GS-9? Near-poverty wages in northern California

Only sucks in Susanville. In Bakersfield, you start at 63k or or 76k if you meet the GS11 requirements. Far from poverty in Bakersfield.

 

[speedway_navigator]

Those 0391 jobs use to be GS-12. I changed divisions within HHS and the job I went to was only an 11. I was 12 step 2 after having been in about 16 years at the time, now I'm back to step 1. I get more hours so I hope to come out ahead but it was about $7 pay cut to do the same thing.

 

[ecps92]

a good reason why I won't take that transfer, staying at my GS-12 Step 4

Those 0391 jobs use to be GS-12. I changed divisions within HHS and the job I went to was only an 11. I was 12 step 2 after having been in about 16 years at the time, now I'm back to step 1. I get more hours so I hope to come out ahead but it was about $7 pay cut to do the same thing.

 

[prcguy]

But if you were to go into the private sector your pay could double depending on your motivation.

a good reason why I won't take that transfer, staying at my GS-12 Step 4

 

[ecps92]

Yes if it was a F/T position, sadly the functions Jay and I do are Part time - Intermitent - my FT job provides me with the bennies

But if you were to go into the private sector your pay could double depending on your motivation.

 

[Marcy57]

a good reason why I won't take that transfer, staying at my GS-12 Step

Wow you guys make me feel bad I retired 23 years a WG8 step 5
but somebody has to do it!....73,s Marcy

 

[jhooten]

Wow you guys make me feel bad I retired 23 years a WG8 step 5
but somebody has to do it!....73,s Marcy

12 years ago as a GS-0856-11 step 10. Yes, an electronic tech with FLEO retirement. There is no going back.

 

[ladn]

In Bakersfield, you start at 63k or or 76k if you meet the GS11 requirements. Far from poverty in Bakersfield.

True, but it's B A K E R S F I E L D !

 

[MUTNAV]

But, But, But, it is in California. Oh, and I'd have to give up my Fed LEO retirement, so NO!

And although it wouldn't effect the people that had already worked in California, if a person at any point had a job in California, then California gets to tax their retirement, no matter where you retire to.

They tried to do that with military retirement at one point ( a person stationed at one point in California would have their retirement taxed.)

Fortunately, that idea was eventually stopped.

Thanks
Joel

 

[alcahuete]

True, but it's B A K E R S F I E L D !

LMAO! No arguments from me on that one.

 

[mmckenna]

True, but it's B A K E R S F I E L D !

Better than Barstow.