I'd absolutely do it, but not because of budgeting reasons. I used to work in commercial, but now a gov contractor. Though commercial was more pressure and less flexible, I very much preferred the clients.

I work with Government Contracts. I came from a large private company that had no government contact whatsoever. It depends on what you think you can do when results are directly related to job quality and performance, not budgetary considerations.

Curious what people would do considering the whole budgeting issue.