Who would want to be in Congress?

[finnbow]

I don't think I could stand the constant campaign that is part of the political scene. It might be interesting to serve one term without a thought of reelection. You could therefore do as you saw fit. The whole constituent services part of the job would suck too (although if you weren't worried about reelection, you wouldn't have to do much of that either.)

One of my best friends left a defense contractor job to become the Chief of Staff for a Blue Dog Democrat from northern Alabama. He dug the excitement and all for a little while, but the whole thing wore him down quickly. He bailed and went back to the military-industrial complex.

I serve on a couple of national consensus standards committees that, unknown to me when I got onboard, are very political (labor, management, manufacturers, insurers, Fed and state gov't. are represented). The technical aspects of the work are fun and interesting. The political bullshit is sickening.