Your response seems a bit rude. What is it that's setting you off? What is it that you think you know about me? Do my post and my comments seem a little off to you? What is it exactly? Whenever I get rude responses, I see the person's comment history, and they're generally extremely nice to other users.

because you don’t seem to be sure of what kind of separation you had. You also say your former department is a nonprofit—were you in civil service

The "you don't seem..." in this context is rudely worded and implying that I'm dumb, inferior, etc. And you know that. I've gotten emails rudely worded to me with the "you don't seem...: in that context, too.

The "you also say.." and the rest of the sentence is rude as well, and you know that, too.

I don't understand why it is that anonymous/psuidonymous posters are automatically condescending to certain people. That's totally not the way I operate. I'd naturally just be super-nice, warm, helpful to ALL people, no matter who they are, psuedonymous/anon or not, anywhere around the world.