Pros
Working for the governments comes with a lot of 3-day weekends and holidays and the summers and holidays are easy.
Cons
Working for the government! The NGIC in Charlottesville is a blackhole of innovation and productivity and performs an out of date and largely irrelevant mission. Tribal leadership at the NGIC is rife with cronyism, favoritism and a hiring bias towards individuals who were at one time Army enlisted or junior officers. The customer for my particular program was not qualified for his position and was he himself the largest bottleneck experienced by the program. The customer ran the program not like a business whose primary purpose was to create value for the US Army and US taxpayers, but like the combination of a hobby and start-up while possessing no business acumen, ability to follow-through on project plans and remained largely disconnected from the aims and mission of the higher command to which he reported. The program manager, aside from being massively overqualified for his role was constantly frustrated as a result of being stymied and asked to perform day to day duties with one hand tied behind his back for much of the time I was on the contract. The result was a frenetic and unproductive work environment, with a disconnected and unproductive workforce.