In case I haven't inspired you to become a civil servant...

Uncle Sam needs you for a meaningless job! Okay, to be fair not ALL government jobs are meaningless (mine definitely is, though). But, Stephen Barr, who writes the column Federal Diary for the Washington Post wrote about how the federal government is going to need to replace all of the lazy, old people who are reluctant to give up their jobs, despite their 60 years of service and the fact that they are 87 years old and have been doing the same drab job for decades (this is my paraphrasing not Stephen's).
Apparently, certain agencies, namely the Department of Homeland Security, IRS, Department of Defense, Department of Veteran Affairs, Patent & Trademark Office, NASA, and a slew of others will be hiring like gangbusters. That's great. My agency was not listed. But, I know that from day one I have seen too many walking corpses who should have been retired 20 years ago. If you can't afford to retire, that's one thing, but otherwise, relinquish your little GS-13 position and finally get a life!
Stephen Barr seems like a nice idealist. His picture screams "I am nice."