So .... you're a "Recovering Public Servant", then.  12-Step program?  ;-)

Don't feel alone.  I have worked in a "public" capacity myself, and certainly on many public-private contracts as a construction hand, Back in the Day.  Why, I even have close friends, still in Academia.

Apropros of nothing in particular, I had a completely non-profane and only mildly-snarky comment "REJECTED!!" the other day by peer review here on RG's CC boards.  Rather hurt my feelings.  :'-(   

(I merely asked if we could count on a government-run single-payer healthcare system being run with the same high standards of competence, integrity, and financial probity as, say, the PERS.)