Specialties
According to the U.S. Labor department's Occupational Outlook Handbook there were 17.6 million men and women employed in some 16,000 different types of Civil Services jobs throughout the United States. There are more jobs available in many foreign lands as well. You'll be able to pick what you like to do, because government workers are engaged in nearly every kind of occupation found in private employment. Some jobs are unique, such as U.S. mail carriers, postal clerks, border patrol agents, immigration inspectors and Internal Revenue personnel.