aunt betty wrote:Work for the govt.?
I picture this.
More like this

I've gone to Las Vegas for work about 25 times or so.
Although, unlike the GSA, which are the people that are supposed to make sure we aren't wasting your money, I didn't get to party on your dime. Nearly every time I've staid in a relatively cheap hotel off the strip. Most times I spend my days in a conference room in a DoE facility in North Las Vegas that supports the nuclear weapons testing site that is out in the desert, the nuclear waste dump that was being built out there until Obama killed it, and things like that. Although, I have gone a number of times to the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies on the UNLV campus. However, over the years I did get to spend a few days in Caesar's Palace and the MGM grand on the taxpayer dime.
If I remember right you went to college for engineering. If you want to know what my job is, it is what an engineering professor does when he is not teaching students. In a boring office, solving problems and writing reports when not begging for money that if done right and the government gets their act together results in some benefit to you that you have no idea where, why, or who did it or even often times that it has been done at all. When they are dysfunctional as they all too often are any more, it is just welfare for PhD's and I am part of the aristocracy of the welfare class.