I'm thinking about accepting a civilian federal job which involves strictly military-type work. its in a big city, but my problem is that i'm figuring that i will eventually want to relocate to a small area, such as maui, in perhaps 5-10 years. I understand that the biggest plus about federal jobs is the retirement security, so I would want to stay in federal for my entire career. Is transferring within federal depts easy to do? I see that although smaller areas will not have any military work, there should be post office and s.s. type of jobs...totally unrelated but potential options right?