[John Rogers]

After I retired from the Navy in 1985 I went in to Civil Service for several years. I went into an organization names DECAS which watched General Dynamics make cruise missiles and launchers as a GS 9 then moved over to Naval Station SD still as a GS 9 then my job was raised to GS 11 which was nice. The whole pay level thing was managed by people in Washington DC with input from local managers who wanted to keep or hire people they needed. I then went to COMNAVAIRPAC as a GS 12 in charge of the Admiral's Staff IT needs which including installing one of the first fiber optic LANs in the San Diego area (first gulf war time). My boss, the Chief of Staff and even the Admiral tried to get use 3 division heads raised to GS 13.....no luck so I left to work as a Senior Oracle DBA at double the salary!

Looking back the major advantage to civil service was job security although there was one time when federal spending forced folks to take early retirement as best I can remember. John Rogers the oldracer