After one day of working, they promoted me from volunteer to intern. After three weeks, they asked me if I’d like to go to Iowa for the weekend, with the caucus two months away in January. From there it was paid intern organizing college voters (who were mostly older than me; I was barely of voting age) to—I still have no idea how I pulled this off—IT as the sole IT person in the city of San Antonio, followed by assistant IT for the state of Pennsylvania. I had gone from lazing around don’t absolutely nothing to working 13-17 hour days, seven days a week. Then, I fucked up and didn’t keep track of a laptop being loaned to the campaign. It went missing. The loaner wanted it back. My boss told me I’d get put on the next campaign stop when I got it “squared away.” I didn’t have the money to replace it, so I didn’t get another job on the campaign. I wasn’t that far away from getting a job in the White House if I hadn’t done that. I went back to being a normal volunteer in a different state.