HOW IS THAT HIGH-PAYING WELFARE GIG WORKING OUT FOR YOU, GOVERNMENT "WORKER"?

Government jobs pay more than private sector jobs for comparable work. It is convenient mythology owing to clever rhetoric that government work pays less than private sector work. See here, here, here and here. 

Government work is fake-work, make-work for the most part. Outside of ports, roads, bridges, border defense, contract enforcement and property assurance as to weights, measures ingredients and the like — you know, general welfare, the only kind of welfare authorized by the Constitution — government work is super high-paying welfare and nothing more.

People who work for government in any capacity other than the general welfare suffer from significant self-delusion as to their actual livelihood and worth to those in society of property.

All should be sure that private sector workers engage in work that produces property that might be wanted. That stuff is called wealth. Government work produces nothing and most often exists to inhibit the production of property and hence wealth.

Often, government work is stealth competition, paid for by taxpayers, but worked at the behest of those who engage in regulatory capture.