Pros
Fed Employee Health Benefits Pension Work outside (although this is getting more difficult to do).
Kontras
Abysmal pay. SERIOUS problems with harrassment, hostile work environment and incompetent administrators. Will not and did not let many employees telework during Covid despite their positions lending themselves well to a virtual setting. Dysfunctional and prehistoric business model. About 10 years behind private industry. Itinerant leadership only cares about climbing the ladder. Extremely old and limited use of technology that private industry has been using for years. Very poor organizational structure from the 1950's. Upper management that has never been in a Forest. Local management very incestuous. Takes forever and requires multiple approvals for even the most inane tasks. Management does not trust it's employees. Extremely hierarchical org often discounts and dismisses people of a lower "GS" level.