<p>If you’re one of the lucky tiny, tiny percent who scores a job with the ACLU, or its lobbying equivalent, then have at it. Otherwise, yes, you choose your company, and almost every one of them will take whatever client comes in the door. </p>
<p>Google “lobbying firms” and “client lists” and let me know if you, when scanning over those client lists, really think that one of those firms is just perfect for you, your opinions, and your beliefs. Of course, you might not be lobbying on the big, sexy issues; you will be paid to lobby about some arcane provision of a regulatory act that is meaningless to you but means quite a bit to a trade group.</p>
<p>Once you’ve done that, look up the last twenty bills in your state that were filed and had paid lobbyists working on them. Let me know how gosh-darn excited you are over any of those issues.</p>
<p>Other posters, please let me know if I’m being unnecessarily cynical.</p>