Reply #13: be glad they didn't offer you an office job

[nickinSTL]

at least in our area, the clerks earn less than the enumerators.

My wife is a clerk and she says there are a number of people in her office who have master's degrees.

As far as the 6 to 8 week job pounding the pavement...that's what the majority of census jobs are.

You might be doing the right thing for you to have refused it, but it seems your expectations were unrealistic, which might be due to not understanding the situation.

You don't take the census exam for a census job and get what you were expecting - sorry, that just doesn't happen.

For a more permanent job with the census, I think you'd have to go through the OPM (Office of Personnel Management).