Oh boy, I’d encourage you to work in government for a year or two. I did IT for a government department that eventually wound up being investigated for letting the Taliban use their equipment (all I did was help them troubleshoot run of the mill PC issues FWIW). I personally know someone who had root access to a government land auction DB. Someone asked them to run “off the book” queries in exchange for looking the other way if said DBA wanted to run their own unaudited queries.