But civil servants are highly skilled and there are lots of jobs that value their experiences.
As Season 3 of the acclaimed and addictive Masterpiece series Downton Abbey draws to its climactic close this Sunday, Feb. 17, many viewers are likely to go into withdrawal: No more sumptuous castle interiors, dramatic goings on in the servants' hall, highly competitive cricket matches, or aristocratic garden parties.
Junior members act as servants to more highly rated wrestlers and enter the sport at the lowest level of its six divisions.
A senior civil servant who left highly classified intelligence documents on a train was in "clear breach" of security rules, MPs were told today.
Even back then, a counselor described her in a recommendation as "a future public servant" who was highly respected at school and seemed destined to have an impact.
This season's slightly feminist and pro-labor gambits notwithstanding (several side plots have been established about highly trained servants being forced out of their jobs), the show not-so-implicitly argues that although circumstances evolve, solid family values will endure.
It proved to be a highly efficient servant of the arts.
If we are successful, then the 17-year-old code developer of today, as much as the new graduate fast-streamer, will embody the civil servant of the future: highly skilled, fluent in both public sector and private sector practices, and trained and supported to deliver an exceptional service for Britain.
The reason you don't hear from him (and that perhaps you've never heard of him, full stop) is that as a civil servant working in the highly politicised and supercharged issue of climate change, public statements tend to come from politicians.
"Stevie Carroll was utterly committed, a servant to all and highly respected.
