I work for a local government agency and have over 20 years experience in IT, with almost 10 in security. Due to a "small world" situation, my name came across the desk of someone at the FBI. I was informally asked what level of interest I would have working for them. I asked the guy several questions and came away with the following: Take a substantial pay cut, move my family over 400 miles away from most of our relatives, forfeit the retirement at my current employer, go through the FBI academy (no desire to go through another boot camp at my age). About the only upshot to the whole thing would be some good training. I'm sure there are jobs with other federal agencies, but I imagine that except for the academy, all of the other negatives apply.
The thing that got me about this is that my skills are nowhere in the ballpark of what I imagine should be the skillset for this type of job. Maybe they're targeting people that they feel can be groomed into the position, but it seems to me that if they're going to take the issue seriously, they would be going for some top dogs and offering some real incentives to those people.
