And why not spend part of your career working directly for the government?

She began a second career working in a hospital laboratory.

Anne has had a long career working in science & technology.

He had a 50 year long career working as a character actor on television and film.

He spent most of his professional career working with the government bureaucracy.

But since he has spent so much of his career working for industry, there is little else to evaluate him on.

Victoria had spent the better part of her career working on that theory.

It's not all about planning a "career" working for somebody else though.

Roberts spent the first seven years of his professional career working in theatre.

His career between 1873 and 1902 was working for various railways.