It’s different in some ways most people outside the beltway aren’t first going to size you up on who you work for etc. but outside they know you have a job whatever it’s off you’re personality etc. don’t sweat that just be genuine. The rest falls into place it took me a long time as a baby dc intern and up to figure this out. I don’t even remotely work in that same industry now and when I run into former people I worked with and they then give me the look of ohhhh you’re not a xxx, xxx, (insert any dc job, lobbyist, fundraiser, staffer etc) and I tell them what I do now. Which is not in that industry. It’s fun to watch their head spin.