Pros
Health Insurance; federal holidays; government shutdowns
Cons
Please do not go to work for the service if you are a middle age white guy. Your career will not go anywhere while you rot on the vine. In a few years, you will be so bored, you will loose all ability to motivate yourself and start developing health issues due to the job stress. No matter how hard you work, they are never satisfied. It is a no win situation that will drive you crazy if you let it. Management cooks the numbers so that they look good and get nice bonuses. They get alway will perjury to congress and stealing money will cooking their numbers. No one in congress really seems to care. They will not give you the equipment or supplies to do your job. I had to purchase many of my own office supplies. When I started with the group, we had one two hole punch and one three hole punch for 20 employees to share.