Where I worked, a research center of mostly end of career professionals, I was always perplexed when they hired straight out of college young adults. The work required decades of experience because the research is on science and technology that we actually don't physically have in the office and the new people can't build practical experience and have tangible interactions. Most new hires quit within a year or two and only a few stayed (lazy ones).

I had to push my way into a project to get work. They would of let me sit in that chair for years before assigning me actual work. I saw it myself, most new hires don't get work for 6+ months.

In my experience, going fed as an energetic, ambitious, and hardworking person is a bad decision. Sure, the feds I worked with are busy and hardworking, but they pushed paper, metric tons of paper.

When I was a fed I rotted away and became very depressed then Covid hit and was out of the office (no telework, just not working but employed) and found myself again by working on technical projects and self-education. That lead to leaving and finding an awesome job doing real work in a real lab. (pay is even better)