Early Retirement for Injured Federal Employees
Of course, we all make them; the issue is one of containment, not of avoiding them altogether. For, the corollary can be equally faulty: Of indecision until and unless all conditions for perfection can be met. In other words, the thwarted view that waits until everything is perfect: The perfect life; the perfect marriage; the perfect career; the perfect choice. […]
The “I”, of course, always dominates; but the two cannot be separated, for they are inevitably interlinked and intertwined in the consciousness of our collective selves. And so the “we” is subsumed by the “I”, and the “I” cannot effectively be distinguished from the “we”. Who we are is inextricably aggregated with who I am; who I am is a product of who we are. […]
There is an anomaly contained in the attempt to “save” faded photos; it is an oxymoron of sorts, where modernity erases the backwardness of yesterday, and yet, at the same time, wants to preserve it. We have all heard about companies that exist which “preserve” outdated family movies, photographs and taped recordings of distant times; it is all placed, preserved, edited and presented in a convenient “thumb drive” or in some “cloud” in the ethereal universe of a web-based phenomena. […]
In preparing, formulating and filing a Federal Disability Retirement application under either FERS or CSRS from the Office of Personnel Management, the Federal or Postal employee […]