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Anyone: Is is a good career move to work for a presidential candidate? Anyone have experience with doing so helping of hurting their career? Also what if the

• rev_bird 11y ago
  No personal experience, but I can't imagine thinking less of someone for taking work with a candidate, even if I didn't personally like the candidate – it'd at least make you stand out a little more. Plus, if there were a hiring manager who would hold it against you that you worked for Hillary Clinton or Mitt Romney or John McCain or whomever, that's probably a manager who's unbearable in other ways too. One potential (and, again, totally made-up) caveat: Working for a well-known politician like Hillary Clinton is probably very different from working with a joke candidate or the "Rent is too damn high" guy.
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• jmcgough 11y ago
  A very liberal friend applied to the Romney campaign during the previous election cycle and ended up working on his campaign. Didn't hurt his career at all, and he got a lot of good stories out of it.