In the classes everyone worked well as a team and designed great projects.
Real world public administration was full of angry and bitter people who never got to manage a project in their lives and no one ever worked on a team that got anything done.
Public Admin classes didn't actually prepare me for government work
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Based on my 5 years working for multiple government agencies, this post reads like OP couldnt even name a government agency, much less get hired to work in one
In the classes everyone worked well as a team and designed great projects.
Also, based on this, OP has likely never been in a college classroom.
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No! There are LOTS of fantastic jobs in government for people with a PA/political science PhD. LOTS! That's what my 89th ranked program told me when I enrolled. They said I probably (probably) wouldn't get a job at a top 5 R1 but every LAC would be begging to hire me because we are better teachers than Harvard. Also there are so many jobs in the public and private sector because of the tremendous skill set I gained in my intro methods seminar.
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No! There are LOTS of fantastic jobs in government for people with a PA/political science PhD. LOTS! That's what my 89th ranked program told me when I enrolled. They said I probably (probably) wouldn't get a job at a top 5 R1 but every LAC would be begging to hire me because we are better teachers than Harvard. Also there are so many jobs in the public and private sector because of the tremendous skill set I gained in my intro methods seminar.
You at Idaho State?
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No! There are LOTS of fantastic jobs in government for people with a PA/political science PhD. LOTS! That's what my 89th ranked program told me when I enrolled. They said I probably (probably) wouldn't get a job at a top 5 R1 but every LAC would be begging to hire me because we are better teachers than Harvard. Also there are so many jobs in the public and private sector because of the tremendous skill set I gained in my intro methods seminar.
Really? The vast majority of government jobs barely even require a Bachelor's, and some not even an Associate's. If you get a government job you're much more likely to be answering phone lines than designing contingency plans.
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No! There are LOTS of fantastic jobs in government for people with a PA/political science PhD. LOTS! That's what my 89th ranked program told me when I enrolled. They said I probably (probably) wouldn't get a job at a top 5 R1 but every LAC would be begging to hire me because we are better teachers than Harvard. Also there are so many jobs in the public and private sector because of the tremendous skill set I gained in my intro methods seminar.
I hear a number of jobs recently opened up in the Virginia Beach city government.
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Really? The vast majority of government jobs barely even require a Bachelor's, and some not even an Associate's. If you get a government job you're much more likely to be answering phone lines than designing contingency plans.
Actually, that's the vast majority of ALL jobs in the Trump economy.
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No! There are LOTS of fantastic jobs in government for people with a PA/political science PhD. LOTS! That's what my 89th ranked program told me when I enrolled. They said I probably (probably) wouldn't get a job at a top 5 R1 but every LAC would be begging to hire me because we are better teachers than Harvard. Also there are so many jobs in the public and private sector because of the tremendous skill set I gained in my intro methods seminar.
Really? The vast majority of government jobs barely even require a Bachelor's, and some not even an Associate's. If you get a government job you're much more likely to be answering phone lines than designing contingency plans.
There's a lot of good government jobs in blue states like new York and California that have large state budgets. Government work in such places is highly data driven, with large teams of analysts on every department and even research teams headed by phds. Even in red States, certain government agencies, such as education, are often highly data driven with teams of social science quants doing policy research.
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In the classes everyone worked well as a team and designed great projects.
Real world public administration was full of angry and bitter people who never got to manage a project in their lives and no one ever worked on a team that got anything done.My MPP classes had groups that fought like cats and dogs. I’d say about half of the groups functioned well.