>>>They intended that people with real jobs would be noble enough to sacrifice a year or two and take time off away from their farms to serve the people.
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>Right. Which had caused some wags to propose methods to identify the eligible citizen who wants office the least so it can be foist on them. ;-) At a minimum you can rely on such folk to do their best and get out rather than acting to preserve their career or found a dynasty.

I often think of an ornery business owner who asked me if I could do a programming project that was really, really difficult in a ridiculously short period of time.
I answered "Yes, we can do it but it will be very difficult and it will cost a lot of money."
I can still see his face when he told me:
"If I want to do things that are not difficult and don't cost a lot of money, I'll go to work for the Post Office."
We did it and accepted his check graciously.

He was correct in his characterization of the type of people who work for the government.
Michael Lewis, in the "The Big Short" shows how, over and over, regulators were intellectually and emotionally outgunned by their counterparts in the private sector.
Elected officials are even worse.
These dunces spend more than half the day raising money.
What person with half a brain would do that?
Term limits would help, but these dunces would have to pass them.