this is. here we need charts smith is an i.t. and cyber security expert for the internal revenue service or i.r.s. he s just a few months short of his sixtieth birthday and can look back on a career with the federal agency spending almost thirty two years a few weeks ago a smooth transition into retirement but then the shutdown and it changed everything . i don t want to do that anymore i ve lost the passion now only for the cybersecurity work for being a civil servant and he says he s not alone many others also intend to leave their government jobs shell shocked and bruised by the longest shutdown in u.s. history. there s going to be. this shutdown will be the cause of senior officials are now concerned that a wave of retirements from frustrated and disgruntled employees could be about to