The worst thing I've done for money?
Last year I worked for an advertising company. That's pretty bad, but on the whole I was working for their corporate social responsibility arm, meaning I was theoretically working towards world peace, and I got to meet all sorts of good people like Mohammed Yunus, Bob Geldof, Desmond Tutu and Kofi Annan. So far, not bad.

However, there was another team in the office that wanted my help since they were generally clueless, interwebically. Their project? Well, they were trying to get their clients elected to high office. I even got to meet one of the clients at a meeting. His name? David Cameron.

Pretty bad, for sure. The nadir of my career? Hell no, it gets worse than that. Fresh from working for the Tories I was back working on the CSR arm, where some of our people were petitioning the UN to a commitment to interfaith dialogue, again ostensibly in the name of world peace. They needed partners in this endeavour, so I was sent to be a liaision to another organisation.

You know that song by Garbage: "If flesh could crawl my skin would fall right off my bones and run away from here"?

For every single second of every single day working with the Tony Blair Faith Foundation I had that line on constant repeat in my head. It's making me cringe just thinking about it.

I now work for a centuries-old, non-political, medical charity. I think I've tipped the karma back far enough that I can sleep at night, especially as I took a pay cut to do so.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 17:20, 2 replies)

That's quite interesting
Why don't you flog some juicy gossip to some tabloid or other.
(Nitrous Nitrous, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 22:02, closed)

Nah
I'm not that greedy
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 11:22, closed)