Never had a government job but I have paid my dues working for "others".
Making them "look good" is part of it but also accumulating knowledge and experience to parlay into my future employment endeavours.
I've always had an aversion to authority and working for someone else only made it worse....now self-employed and captain of my own ship. Sure - you don't get a traditional paycheck but it doesn't matter - there's so much more upside in not sucking up to a nitwit with seniority essentially you almost can't place a value on it!
Tallyho Cliff....
