I have always had a passion for politics since university.  You can say politics just about the only thing I was really good at university.  Ironically, this was the one subject that I had no interest when I was in school.  As a child I wanted to be an Astronomer.  In high school, I wanted to be a Chemist.  When I was filling out my college and university application forms, I filled in mathematics as my desired major.  Given all these different interests, the topic I choose at the end of the first year at Brandies University was politics.  I did try other things like math, economics and such.  The great thing about liberal art schools is the variety and the diversity of subjects required to graduate and the option to experiment in different subjects.  After my first semester of a politics class, I discovered I had sort of a knack for it.  This not too surprising since I always like history.  So if you are good at it might was well as stick with it.  So after reading much reading, I got my Bachelors of Arts in Politics.  (There is no such thing as Political Science at Brandies).  I focused my studies on United States Politics, United State History, United States Culture, Asian Politics, Asian History and Asian Culture.  To be honest, I studied more History and Politics than Culture.  You can only do so much in four years at university and it was not like I could afford to spend money just to spend an extra year for fun.

This leads me to my present occupation.  I am a Legislative Aide for State Senator Michael W. Morrissey, a Democrat from Quincy.  I have been with the Senator since November of 1995.  I have been around to witness a little bit of Massachusetts political history including the changing of a Speaker of the House, a Senator President and a Governor.  For a person that study political science, it was definitely an experience to witness so much change in a couple of years.  It is fictional when people tell you politicians are around forever, even those in powerful eventually go for one reason or another.

What do I do at work  It is hard to describe.  My resume summarizes what I do for a living.  I do some press work and often deal with the media and occasionally coordinate media events.  I mostly on researching, writing and moving a legislation of all types.  There are over 6,000 pieces of legislation filed per during the 2 year session of the Massachusetts Legislation.  I work on only a couple hundred at any given time.  Also the Senator is Senate Chairman of the Joint Committee on Government Regulations, I work on committee matters regarding the Division of Registration.  I do some constituent work that is not directly related to legislation which tend to be personal problems of something of that nature.