Floodlight

Public servants are often thought of as lazy, leeches on taxpayers who contribute little and are largely bureaucratic. People think they achieve little, take constant coffee breaks and go home at 4pm. Some of these are true, some aren’t, and it depends on where that public servant works. Meanwhile private graduate employers are thought of as demanding long hours with incomplete reimbursement for the level of work and time demanded. Graduates sometimes think they are they like fresh blood to be worked hard by high level employees like partners out-earning them far more substantially than the managers in government agencies do over their graduates.Who has the more meaningful work? Are private stuck doing low level admin work for those with more experience? Are public mostly concerned with training for long periods and so achieve little in terms of real work?Let's explore the differences between the perceptions we have on the two career paths and the realities that we actually observe from the perspectives of on