Careers In Government

Politician: An Essential Career, and Fun, Too
If you want to be a politician, you’ve got to be thick skinned. Everywhere people will be trying to rip you apart, and if you can’t handle it, you won’t go far. You need to be able to debate and you need charisma. To be a good politician you need much more than this, to be good you need ideas, intelligence, optimism, morals, determination, a whole host of attributes, but that is only to be a good politician: if you have charisma and can debate, you can fool people into thinking you have the qual...

Lobbyist: A Professional Pain in the Ass
To be a professional lobbyist, one need be comfortable with bothering people, nagging them, threatening them (non-violent threats, of course) and deceiving them into your way of thinking. And the people you do this too are not nobodies, they are the elected men and women of this nation. If you have ever written a letter to your congressman, asking him to rethink an issue, then you are a lobbyist. The difference between me and a letter-writer is that a special interest group pays me to go and spe...