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Being a bureaupreneur

By Pinkerton, James
Publication: Government Executive
Date: Saturday, January 1 2000
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Some advice for the class of '00 on where to look for work in the 21 st-century government.

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Greetings to the best and brightest: the class of '00, about to graduate from topnotch public policy and public administration schools across the country. I'll skip all the highminded future-liesbefore-you stuff and get right down to what you really need: career advice.

Put bluntly, the forecast is cloudy. A Democratic President says the era of big government is over, and he promises balanced budgets as far as the eye can see. The New Economy runs rings around the New Deal, and 20-somethings would rather sign on with an IPO than the GPO, GAO or CBO. These are all signs that the 21st century is not going to be as bureauphilic as the 20th.

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