ORIGINAL: Jimmbbo
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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...
My job is nothing like that. I have flexible hours, good benefits, good pay, a good boss, etc. But the adm. is another story. Anti-labor, pro-airline, pro-contracting, and by extension, anti-GA. Of course this is just a subjective impression, subject to bias and error on my part and by no means official. Some of the recent changes
should result in overall better service to the public.
Now that I'm
in, i'm gunning for a flight inspection flying job. I expect to hear something any day now on my recent inverview.