Private sector is not immune to your woes. You’ve got grass is greener syndrome. Experiences vary between public and private so wildly that it’s not worth compa

Private sector is not immune to your woes. You’ve got grass is greener syndrome. Experiences vary between public and private so wildly that it’s not worth comparing them each as a monolith. Personally - I gave up on the non-profit/do-something-holy mission after I got out of college and I realized no government or university was going to hire me for some mundane reason. (I had been employed at a university before) So I went with private options - doing startups, enterprise, seeing a company to IPO, joining large public tech companies, etc. I don’t regret it. It certainly pays much better. I know the troubles with government/public positions and I handsomely prefer the quality of life improvements I’ve been afforded that come with working in the private sector. Truth is - government often uses a lot of the private sector anyway. I worked at a company that had government contracts. So, in some ways, I was a public worker as much as anyone else. I just got paid better than if I was in the government. The government pays like it’s 1950 and you live in a LCOL area.