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- TikTok videos detailing the benefits of government jobs and how to enter the field are blowing up.
- Applications to government jobs more than doubled last year, according to Handshake.
- People are interested in stable careers amid economic uncertainty and layoffs.
Brandon Tamayo considered leaving his current job for a role in the private sector on his way to work one morning.
He thinks about it often — and you can probably guess why.
"More money," Tomayo said. "My friends in the private sector told me 'You could double your pay.'"