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This is a place for single people without children, or as a first job out of law school. You will get thrown into the deep end of the pool: depositions before your third month, second chairing trials before your first anniversary, first chairing trials before your second anniversary. 

But you are at the mercy of the quality of your direct supervisor: If they don't authorize you to settle bad cases, you will sink from overwork. If they can't let go of the review process for your work product, you will never get anything out the door so you can move on to your next task.

Supervisors break their commitments and leave before they've served their assignments out, and line level employees get harassed for not being able to keep up with overloaded work levels.

Supervisors who care will burn out.

The money sucks. The City's benefits are mediocre at best. Long term, you'd be better off as a unionized subway worker than as an exempt employee. 

If you want to climb the ranks, you can do so, especially because turnover is so high. You will find friends, but you will be hard pressed to find true mentors because the skill sets of those around you are shallow, compartmentalized. 

This is the practice of law as triage, not as surgery or art or profession. The judges are pro-plaintiff, and the City is the defendant. You are not expected to win. You are expected to stop some of the bleeding, and try to ignore the rest.

True understanding of how to be a good lawyer will have to come from someplace else, and pity the employee who has worked in the private world and knows the differences. 

It is the kind of place that could make a young lawyer quit the profession altogether if you try to stick it out too long.

Get the job, learn what you can, and leave quickly. Everyone else is doing the same.

A roll call was performed before proceeding to work using vehicles and limited police equipment to enforce all five boroughs of the city. A limited unit of nine persons enforced and regulated private sanitaton companies and their operations, as well as performing the same tasks for the city's produce, meat and fish wholesale markets, without lethal weapons but body armor and moderate weapons within all five boroughs. I learned better investigative skills, community affairs skills, police techniques and resolving matters in consumer affairs. The working hours were taxing, they varied from day shift hours to night shift hours. I learned to be a policeman without really being one, in a city that never sleeps. Management turnover was high, and rules changed constantly without reason. Hardest part of the job was dealing with the idiosyncracies of the management due to its inane and draconian demands. The unit, left to its own devices, usually made adjustments in order to fulfill the wishes of a management not really informed on what it was enforcing. The camarderie between the units only made the job enjoyable; most personnel had more tenure than that of management. Had management shown more camarderie toward the units, it would have been an ideal place of employment.

In my most recent position I was the Program & Fiscal Manager in the Grants & Administration Unit (GAU) and I was responsible as part of a team for the planning, management, implementation and evaluation of contracts for budgets exceeding $3,770,000 (or $58,000 per hospital per fiscal year).  The deliverables I oversaw have a program budget of $10,000 per hospital and I track, process and approve documentation and payment from pre-award to close-out using Sales Force.  

Each year GAU applies for three non-competitive grants totaling $27 million following the fiscal year of the City of New York.  The three federal funding streams come from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). 

I was a Senior Budget Analyst at the NYC Office of Management and Budget. I worked
on the capital budget for the Health and Hospital Corporation as well as the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Public Health Lab. My work consisted of creating a four and ten-year budget forecast totaling $300 million and an annual executive budget that would eventually be approved and introduced by the Mayor at City Hall.  

I lived in Honduras and I have also worked on short-term projects in Haiti and Senegal, in addition to completing study abroad programs in Spain and Brazil.

What is the best part of working at the company?
It was indeed a wonderful opportunity to help the students. I loved doing what ever I can for the students. I enjoyed the vacations. They are so precious and the future. Most of all I loved my job. As a school aide I basically helped with supervision of the students in the lunchroom. I helped with the recreational activities. Escorted the students to the hospital and waited until they parents arrive at the hospital. I even went to Police precincts and pleaded for the students to be released,

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Went fights broke out in the school and I had to be in the middle to stop the students from fighting.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I was physically attacked  by one of my coworkers and I suffered a great deal of injuries. It happened in the school.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Loud noises in the lunchroom. I've always done my best at work with the breakfast and lunch account abilities.

Respond to customer requests for assistance with PC data communications problems and support telecommunications concerns, troubleshooting to determine issues and correcting problems. Complete trouble tickets efficiently and accurately. Facilitated customer explanations to more quickly find problems and document resolution steps. Order needed parts from vendor. Give directions to customers for self-fixes when possible and ensure users can connect to resources across HRA network. Update and automate database of corrective actions for issues resolution and tracking. Manage Helpdesk by ensuring all telephones were on and queue calls were completed. Train new co-workers on Database Magic. Guide other technicians over the telephone in troubleshooting steps to resolve issues. The Operating Systems platforms used are Windows NT, 2000 and Windows XP. Assisting users with Mainframe programs web base application and Word and Outlook 2003/2007.

• Assisted other departments in determining problem resolutions by conducting Internet research and keeping detailed records.

Projects were well defined and were difficult to alter. User policy set the requirements for completion of projects and the most important issue was the complete testing of the completed product before implementation. Malfunctioning programs would be a major difficulty. Therefore, strict project definition life cycle was required with each phase being checked rechecked and signed off by all levels of users, developers and management. My staff was unionized which made for a unique experience and requiring a change in management style and expectations. The hardest part of the job the office intrigue of a City position. The most enjoyable part of the job was the freedom to create project support programs and the technical ability to  try new options in achieving the project goals.

The Department of Design and Construction (NYCDDC or just DDC) is an amalgam of sections of agencies from NYCDOT (New York City Department of Transportation), NYCDEP (New York City Department of Environmental Protection) infrastructure side and the structure  side from other agencies. This was so all the paperwork can be done at once and none of the usual NYC stuff of repaving a road then three months later tearing it up again to do work.

As for a place to work, when I was there, it was a good place. The good feelings coming from our agencies followed on over. As time passed on, and more security came on, especially after 9/11, it got more machine like.  I eventually left in the early 2000's. Been back once to see people and it was like whoa, very machine like, but that was the purpose of the (then new agency in 1996) to be more productive.

At my previous jobs there were different experiences at the facility everyday. There was not really a "typical day" because each day would hold a new learning experience. At the Department of Sanitation I handled a variety of tasks from answering and transferring calls to completing reports for employees who got hurt on the job. I learned how to pay attention to detail while filing reports.My co-workers were very kind to me here and taught me the necessary skills I needed in order to complete daily task. Overall, working with DSNY was a great learning experience. At the Visiting Nurse Service my role varied from day to day. Most days I would watch over children and rarely would I work in the office there. My co-workers were very kind and worked together on the job with the children.

What is the best part of working at the company?
You can have a great career that you form and mold to your strengths.  You can learn an industry from all the knowledge that will surround you and use it to build a career!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
There is a lot of bureaucracy and a lot of people who make a career of covering themselves from any kind of controversy.  To succeed you need to be a strong and confident decision maker and seek out others that are of a similar mindset.


What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I was very lucky to be part of a very professional team who wanted to make an impact and be successful.  There aren’t many groups that are of that same thinking but you sho7ld sort all that out when interviewing

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
There was no typical day in my function or the business units for which I was associated.

The City of New York is a good solid employer. The work is never boring. The pace is fast moving. It is satisfying to see clients' growth process as it unfolds before your very eyes!  The hardest part of the job is the time frame one is forced to preform in; often with a shortage of staff.  Manager have a difficult job as they must  get the job done at all costs. Coworkers are as stressed as you, but the children are so worth it all.  I learned how to handle stress, how to find inner peace, by seeing the greater goal of the job. One has to learn to set priorities in their organization the days work.  One learned to discuss methods of relieving stress and tension with co-workers, without taking away from company time.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Policy advisor 16 salaries reported	$92,156 per year
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Director 15 salaries reported	$93,481 per year
Executive director 9 salaries reported	$144,319 per year

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