Have had seven friends go to work for the FAA - one quit in a year, another a year later, one died of a heart attack, another of a stress related stroke - probably not a good recruitment statistic.

Have worked with some great Feds.. the ones with real world experience have been terrific. They know what the FAA needs, and what the customer needs and work to solve issues collaboratively.

IMO the Feds who were hired because they could identify an airplane three out of five times, then issued Inspector's credentials are the pinheads who make life miserable and tarnish the name of the FAA and the efforts of the "good guys" who toil there...