Cultish

Campaigns, Hill offices, small consulting firms, academia...what do these fields have in common? The cult of personality. That's right, your entire future rests on the whims, moods, and desires of a singular person. If that person gets sick, mad, becomes senile, or in any way becomes incapable of interacting on a basic human level you are SCREWED. I have spent my entire (brief though it is) professional career working under these kinds of subjective conditions and let me tell you, it has not done anything to bolster my faith in humanity. People basically suck, and talented or power-hungry people suck more. They are unreasonable, unreliable, and they often make you decipher their completely unintelligible requests.

Books have been written on these people (The Devil Wears Prada), movies have been made (Working Girl), and I have heard of Hill staffers being forced to walk a Member's dog in the middle of a mark-up so the yippy thing won't piddle on the state seal. This is not a good use of an educated person's time! Much better to work within a nebulous corporate community or a large multi-national conglomerate so you don't confuse your hatred for "The Man" with an actual man.

Because the bottomline is this: people, no matter how talented, visionary, or intelligent they are are, only consider themselves quite happy 53% of the time.

There are not enough sick days in the world to weather that other 47%.