The U.S. workforce is hemorrhaging jobs. Since the first of the year 210,000 workers have been told the bad news. Yet there is one sector of the economy that is expanding. It’s the federal government which last year added 181,000 workers to the payroll. Suddenly, government is cool.
Government jobs have something the private sector doesn’t have right now; expansion. It’s not going anywhere, and the benefits are stable and lasting. Plus, some people believe that New York City with it’s dependence on Wall Street, has lost it’s luster and Washington is the place to be.
There’s another job that may begin to look appealing again, and that is the Roman Catholic Priest. The Priesthood has been decimated in recent decades, by the Priest sex abuse scandal, and by the private sector which pays well, is socially rewarding and allows employees to be married.
Will this economy spur people to work for the government and in the church? So far, there’s no indication that young men are lining up for the stability of the priesthood yet, but the government is attracting new interest. A recent job fair in Tuscon, Arizona attracted 800 people looking for information about Border Patrol jobs. That area of the government alone is expected to hire 11,000 workers this year alone.
In a challenging economy like this, work that had little interest just two years ago has sudden new appeal.
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