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There are Federal pensions involved. Try to get that at a Valley startup. Plus the opportunity to really change the world (for better or worse).

Pension for life + up to 26 vacation days a year

After 15 years you get 26 days.

I couldn't find a single valley company that would give me a 401k match

Can't tell if you're being facetious. Google and Facebook both do 50%.

(Apologies if I'm humor-impaired this evening. I suspect you're being sarcastic, on second read.)

I meant startups sorry

It's not like the direction you're trying to change the world will necessarily be very different!

And the job is probably about how to more efficiently kill people. No thanks.

But you have to take into account the great long term benefits. True. The GS scale seems a bit low.