Comment If you are competent in drug development ... (Score 3, Interesting) 80
Do you work for the FDA for a government civil servant wage reviewing other company's work or do you go to work for industry and earn the wage you trained for?
Same thing at the US Patent & Trademark office. Patent examiners come in, learn the ropes and go out to become patent attorneys in the private sector.
Same thing happens at the IRS.
Government doesn't keep the brightest bulbs because of pay and bureaucracy.