I worked as the O`ahu Island archaeologist at DLNR for 6 years and it was a hard job, for many of the reasons Milner and some of the commenters have noted.  

One of the hardest things about the job was dealing with the public's assumption that I was stupid, lazy, incompetent, and dishonest.  In their view, why else would I be working for the state?  After a while, I came to expect it, then I left because life is too short to spend so much time struggling against that kind of prejudice.

You probably heard the one about the state worker who crushed the snail because it had been following him all day ...