Pros
The instructors and most program managers are good people. It's very stable.
Cons
They will work you to death and you will not receive any extra compensation. Be ready for consistent 6 days on with 1 day off. If you have a day on the schedule that's open, they will expect you to be on-call. The pay is between 30-35% below what your peers are making doing the same job for the competition. The program managers are generally really good but, the center management and for sure the corporate management are completely out of touch with the workers. You will only get credit for time you spend with the clients. You will be expected to do many hours of training each year, all of your work in preparation before the client shows up, and all of your paperwork with no credit. Essentially, you are donating 1.5-2 hours everyday to the company. They have no respect for your quality of life. If you show up, do your briefing, climb in the sim and discover the sim is broke, you will be expected to wait until the sim is up and running and then continue. So, if the sim takes 4-5 hours to get fixed, you will work a 12-15 hour day. There's a lot of retired military folks at the center management level. That's not bad in itself but, they will nit pick just like the military. This company literally can't find anyone who wants to work for them yet, you have some managers who will nit pick your shoes or uniform. If I was them, I would go out of my way not to run someone off but, because they are so out of touch with reality they'll nit pick. My best advice for the military is if you want to run it like the military go back to the military. They are extremely cheap, their computers are 10 years out of date. Their pay is at least 30% lower than the competitors pay yet, they make money hand over fist.