It was never that I lacked the courage to do it. If I trained, I too could have held a tape recorder behind my bosses back for minutes - SEVERAL minutes in fact. And I am just as good about talking about "my Minister" over drinks after work as the next hack.
I just wanted something a bit more rewarding. You know that feel good feeling that you have when you actually accomplish something with your day. Of course, rewarding work is also the sort of job that does not pay well. Thus, I am an underpaid lawyer. Woo is me. Please cry for me Canada.
Why didn't I take the $120,000 a year and a false sense of self-importance? I am such an idiot.
NOTE: The NDP are the only party with a unionized staff. This means that they are the only staffers on the hill that maintain some semblance of job security. This also means that no staffer gets paid 120,000 of tax payers dollars as all staffers get a respectable wage. Other parties may pay certain individuals $120,000, but that means someone else only gets paid $25,000 (that is the junior - mentor relationship that the article talks about during the Chretien / Martin years.
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But don't you just love the look of fear and panic in their eyes as the realization sinks in that their pay days are rapidly coming to an end!??
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