One of the “Examining Corp”—

You sound like a typical government employee. No you don’t make as much as we do. You work about 1/2 as hard as we do and you did about 1/2 as well as we did in school and in jobs. The PTO has a very high retention rate. Attorneys doing prosecution in private practice have a low retention rate and are constantly fired.

Our job is much, much harder than yours and overall we are much smarter and harder working than you. I know many attorneys that left private practice and work at the PTO. They say it is a cake walk. No you don’t get paid much but the work is steady and isn’t very hard. I know the PTO very well. I go and have lunch there sometimes with old friends who used to work at some of the best law firms in the country but decided it was way too hard. (And it is.) And I grew-up not far from the PTO.

You are like all those government employees that overrate how hard they work and overrate their own skill set. I grew-up in DC and the government worker mindset very well. Many relatives that are lifers for the federal government. All of you think that you are worth just so much more and if only you weren’t working for the government, why you’d be a CEO or Nobel Laureate. The fact is you are just a bunch of average joes and janes that don’t work very hard and get a decent wage. Nothing wrong with that, but pretending you are something else is ridiculous.