sacrifice one makes in taking a federal job is prioritizing government procedures (“bureaucracy”, which is an important feature not a bug) over more transferable private sector skills.
I also foresee culture issues in a profession that by and large supports this administration but hope I am wrong.

Won’t happen but employers need to meet people where they are. Many of these people have childcare and elder care obligations and aren’t in a position to work the amount of overtime it takes to learn how to do a new accounting job efficiently.
Passion is great but it isn’t a skill, part of the…