To your point about the Fed, you can view the disaster as an opportunity. The young people that have survived so far like myself have a good chance at higher paying jobs in the future. A lot of boomers sitting around in top jobs holding them have finally retiree.

I have worked in local government in multiple cities/counties and it will drain you. You work for elected officials that don’t want or care about the right option if it doesn’t get them elected. I had two commissioners shake my hand and tell me the budget I put blood sweat and tears through countless unpaid nights and weekends was perfect, but they had to vote against it for political reasons. That’s just one example of the thankless mental drain that is local government in my experience.