I am a passionate software developer and greatly enjoy programming.
However I was recently contacted regarding a developer lead position for a government job at NYC for the fire department.
The pay is pretty good, and I would assume the position has good job security and stability.
But I am hesitant to even go for an interview as it seems like an exaggerated version of Office Space with a lot of Bureaucracy and mindless paper work.
The description is as follows:
  The Lead Applications Developer,
  supporting the Programming Group, will
  be responsible for all phases of the
  system development life cycle
  including performing system analysis,
  requirements definition, database
  design, preparation of scopes of work,
  and development of project plans.
  Supervise programming staff and manage
  projects involving the design,
  implementation, maintenance, and
  enhancement of complex Oracle based
  user applications using Oracle
  Development tools. Applications will
  be deployed using Oracle Application
  Server utilizing programming languages
  such as JAVA, JSF, JSP, Oracle ADF,
  PL/SQL, and XML with J2EE and EJB
  technology.
Anyone with previous government experience can share their two cents on this?
Thank you.