Originally Posted by
kme9418
That's the problem. You say you are working too much but you are VOLUNTARILY working all your TPs when you don't have to. I was an ART for 5.5 years and ranged from 0-48 TPs per year. My average over 5 years was 24. Mo' money, mo' problems. A GS-13 with 0 TPs is still a 6 figure job. If you can't live on that, you don't have an income problem, you have a spending problem.
Mo money mo problems? ....Says the guy who's no longer an ART.
5.5 years puts you barely at 6 months over the min vesting period required for a FERS annuity at 60. Coincidence? I think not.
Come on brother, a little truth in advertisement goes a long ways towards credibility if you're gonna knock a guy for trying to attain income parity with an AGR when doing the exact same job working 4 extra days a month and still making less. If it were that great how come you're not an ART anymore?