Pros
I worked at TSA for over 5 years...became full time after 3 years, made lots of friends, and every day was a new adventure. The benefits and pay for what I did was good to start off on.
Cons
The management made this place unbearable...tried to promote to different positions for over 3 years and was always overlooked and they always picked their favorites. Favoritism runs rampant in this agency. It's not about what you are qualified to do, or how well you do your job, it's about who you know or who you're sleeping with. I tried everything to promote to other positions, Lead, Behavior Detection Officer, Training, even Administrative, and still nothing. I tried transferring out to another airport hoping to get away from the favoritism and every time I was blocked from leaving. I finally applied to be a steward for the Union which was the only place I could go to, and got that position. In the end I learned one thing, this is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to government jobs, the passengers mistreat you, management belittles you..Even though they don't know what they are doing themselves and are seriously undereducated for their positions...and the hours vary wildly for seniority...even myself that had over 5 years seniority still didn't compare to the old timers that had been there for over 10, 15 or 20 years.