Weedhound said:

"20 years. Is this a job you like? I don't ask that as a joke either.....do you like this job?

If you're simply marking time then you need to go.....20 years in a gov position will have benefits that you will lose if you are fired. Those are important. Don't lose them.

It would be scary to find a new job but much MUCH easier on you if you resign. You need to decide what the odds are here....that's really all you have to go by."

Do I really like the job? No, but I'd love to keep it! If I lose this job it will literally cost me hundreds of thousands of $ in the form of 7 years of pension payments and medical benefits (I wouldn't lose all of the benefits, but it would delay when they would start), not to mention possibly my wife and home if I can't keep a cash flow going. I haven't been a sterling employee, but I would say that I'm in the 90th percentile when I look around at others and what they do or don't do.

The way the system works I would have the opportunity to resign as long as I did it before the disciplinary hearing takes place.