COVID-19 and your retirement timetable
March has been a game-changer for billions of people. In addition to the obvious, like staying healthy and staying alive, the pandemic has produced a variety of mid-life crises for just about every...
View ArticleLife (and your career) after coronavirus
The idea of an out-of-the-blue pandemic shutting down America and the rest of the world would be an April Fools Day prank of the worst kind. Unfortunately, this is not a drill. Unlike past major...
View ArticleConfessions of the quarantined: My 90 Day Fiancé
A friend who works for Uncle Sam in a Maryland suburb is one of the new or expanded group of teleworkers. She teleworked infrequently in past but is now doing it full time — maybe for weeks or months....
View ArticleSometimes federal work is downright hazardous
When a folksy old doctor gets death threats, you know federal employment can come with real hazards. But alas, it’s true. For perhaps incomprehensible reasons, the ubiquitous Dr. Anthony Fauci must...
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The TSP millionaires club just lost nearly half its members
There’s just no escaping the economic downfall created by the coronavirus pandemic. All the signs are there. Every single Thrift Savings Plan fund took a much-anticipated nosedive last month. More TSP...
View ArticleManaging your TSP: Buy, sell or sit tight?
Not so long ago in what now looks like the good old days hundreds of Thrift Savings Plan account holders were hoping to be inducted into the Millionaires Club. A few believed that by mid-year they will...
View ArticleJoin the fight of our lives: Uncle Sam wants you back
First responders, doctors, nurses, cops, researchers and scientists have always been heroes. We just didn’t always know it. Now we do! And you can never have enough heroes, especially in a time like...
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Millionaires club takes stock — no pun intended
With the stock market reeling — temporarily, we hope — from the impact of the coronavirus on the world economy who do you feel sorriest for: The 22,432 active and retired feds whose Thrift Savings Plan...
View ArticleWhat a great time to be in federal work
It might sound corny, but an old aphorism applies now: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. That’s my theme for today, the fourth Friday, by my count, since this whole thing moved in like an...
View ArticleThinking of joining the fight? Here are 5 interesting coronavirus response jobs
Teleworkers, is the monotony getting to you yet? In normal times, temporary details are often a professional development tool, a way to mix it up at your current position, learn something new and make...
View ArticleNext big health shocker: Your 2021 FEHBP premiums
The next big health shocker to hit the American public in general, and members of the federal family in particular, is likely to be in the form of record-high, double-digit health premium increases to...
View ArticleWriting your own obit
When I was a very young reporter assigned to write obituaries, an elderly colleague (a woman of about 45) gave me some good advice. “If you want to be sure you get a good obit in the paper, write it...
View ArticleThe new normal? It’s all over the map, or the house
A matter of historical record here at Federal News Network— in the early days of the Federal Drive show there were concerns around a live, on-air interview with, let’s call it a high level public...
View ArticleWill telework ever be the new normal?
A strange bit of irony occurred last week. The Office of Personnel Management offered up its annual report to Congress on the state of telework in the federal government — from two years ago. The...
View ArticleAnybody there? Tales from lock down land
Unless you’ve been a professional hermit for most of your life, the past few weeks have been weird. People who were told they could never work from home are now working from home. Restaurants are...
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