Good let them suffer like the rest of us.

Bring air transport to a halt and a deal will follow asap

I think that would be ideal!

But we are specifically prohibited from engaging in a strike or any other type of organized work stoppage. The professionalism my colleagues have maintained through this have been a huge part in keeping the public on our side. I am personally not willing to put my career and my livelihood at risk because some toddler in the WH is throwing a temper tantrum. Most of my brothers and sisters would agree with me.

Just curious...

1. What made you want to get into that field?

2. Do you enjoy it?

1) Like many of my collegues, I wanted to be a pilot but it is prohibitively expensive. Graduated with my BA, then found out my local community college was offering an ATC program, with priority hiring into the FAA. I have always kept ATC in the back of my mind, so I enrolled. A year and a half later, I had an AAS in ATC, then a year and a half after that, I was hired into the FAA.

2) I absolutely LOVE my job which is why this shutdown is so difficult for me. If this shutdown continues much longer, some decision will have to be made regarding my future as an air traffic controller. I have worked too damn hard to get this job, in a location I have dreamed of working, and it would be downright depressing for me to have to walk away from it.

to get to work. one said.

I fear this will get exponentially worse in the next week, from news reports I'm reading.

Elections have consequences, so when people are hurt, bankrupted or killed due to this shutdown, let's do our part to remind every Repug we know of what they've done.

Some stories of the on-going pain suffered by some of our public servants told here:

Federal worker forced to ration insulin because of government shutdown

Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna958066

(snips)