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In fact, if Obama wins on November 4th—and serves one full term in the Oval Office—the Presidency of the United States would be the longest consecutively held full-time job he has ever held without seeking another.
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October 22nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Same was true for W, no?
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
According to Wikipedia, W had a 5 year stint as “managing general partner” (whatever the hell that means) for 5 years and was Gov of Texas for ~5 years before announcing his bid for president. The Wiki page on W didn’t list dates for his time in the oil industry.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Who’s to say he isn’t looking for some CEO job after this?
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
There isn’t a company on the planet that would bring W on as CEO. He’ll get some cush board appointments and basically swat Titleists until he kicks the bucket. I wouldn’t expect he would get any appointments as a professor at a foreign policy school like Stanford, Georgetown or American either. That would be work.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 am
metulj,
I don’t think Fox was talking about W.
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Yu-Ain:
I was close, but a little off. W was only governor of Texas for a little less than four and a half years before announcing his presidential candidacy (Jan ’95 to June ’99). The “managing general partner” thing is a little more impressive than it sounds, though it mostly means “he owned part of the team and took part in team activities.”
My point wasn’t really to disparage W (or Obama) so much as to point out that it’s really not all that unusual for people with presidential aspirations to frequently seek promotions.
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
No, I understand that point. At least to an extent. Ambitious people tend to be, well, ambitious. 🙂
In some fields changing jobs infrequently means you are suspect of being lazy and uninterested in self-improvement. But then changing jobs too frequently looks like job hopping and that you are more interested in looking good on a resume than actually being good at your job.
It can be a fine line to walk sometimes.
But that being said, W has had at least two jobs(perhaps more) for 4+ years prior to running for POTUS where, if memory serves me (I fully realize I could be wrong about this), O hasn’t had a single job ,without seeking another, for much more than about 2.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
depends on how you define it all…Obama worked at a law firm for 9 years, was a State Senator for 8 and was a Constitutional Law Professor for 11 years. Its just that those roles intertwined.
After college he was a professor and an associate at a law firm. He then was elected State Senator and eventually dropped the law firm and then finally dropped the teaching when he was elected to US Senate.