Do you think the fact that I owned my own business for four years would give me some valid qualification for a position as a County Economic Developer?

Some history…when I owned my own business I wound up hooked up with the South Central Economic Development folks. Above all, I remember that the two reps I had were a) quite young, mid to late 20’s and b) were completely clueless about what running a business actually entails. They seemed to have the assumption, as many people do, that if you own your own business, you have plenty of money. They had a lot of book learning, loved to play with imaginary dollar figures….but at least once sent me down the very worst path for me and my business. The second gal was intent on showing me how smart she was, and how good she was on the computer, and I stupidly let her get into the books and change about $400,000 worth of large equipment sales (from the time we first started selling them, four years earlier) into another account. Boy she was just so fast and cool…..and when all was said and done my books were so F’d up, and not only for that year, but for all the years prior, that it took me a literal month, including Sundays, to fix them…