I did some work for the government while in college. While I'm glad I did it, as it gave me a purpose and venue for my essentially self-taught advanced coding, I would never do it again.
I did work for the city gov't too while in college. It was a strange experience, being the only computer intern working for the Dept. of Agriculture, giving my end-of-summer presentation about JS and Access forms to a room full of other students who spent the summer hiking around farm fields taking measurements.