The kind of company that can cope with doing business with the government is rarely the kind of company that attracts and retains decent programmers. In my exp

The kind of company that can cope with doing business with the government is rarely the kind of company that attracts and retains decent programmers. In my experience most of the programmers in these kind of companies are people who just do it for a job (as opposed to those of us who do it because we can't help it and are pleasantly surprised to discover people will pay us to do it :-) )