Very much an industry of two halves. Some companies absolutely do not care about you and will drive you to do more with less and for longer hours until you burn out, and then replace you with the next poor sucker. Offers will bend over backwards to look after their people and maintain a working environment where everyone gets a say and is happy and able to be at their best. Which one you get can be a total coin flip, and even sat talking to them in a job interview it’s sometimes easy to mistake one for the other.
My mailman says USPS is still a good path; federal job with pension. He likes being a carrier, but says he’s trying to get his kids to look at other roles within the Postal Service, like mechanic/technician or logistics or IT.
I do think any federal job that doesn’t get dragged into politics too much would be pretty solid.