[This is a follow-up to an earlier post of mine on blog4brains about lobbyists, entitled "Lobbyists and Our Economic Woes." If you have not read the earlier post, I encourage you to do so.]

Need a job? Here’s a job without any requirements at all — no higher or special education, no background checks, no random drug tests. You do need one thing going for you, and that’s the inborn skills of a pitchman — being a natural pitchman is a must requirement. (Some may say an ability to navigate ethical gray areas is an important skill as well, but that is neither here nor there.) The chores of obtaining proper contacts and mustering the ability to network are important but secondary traits.

What’s really needed is the pitchman’s style. Can you pitch a ideas, whether new or old, bad or good? Pitch to win favors, pitch to sway influence to your client’s way? It’s nothing different from other pitchmen in different kinds of work. For example, in Hollywood, it’s the way where guys pitch their story ideas in the allowed 5 minutes to people who finance and make movies. You, too, can be a similar peddler of influence. And as a wildcat lobbyist pitchman, you don’t need a license or need to register.

That’s right, a wildcat lobbyist. This is where I recognize an opportunity for employment that’s possible in today’s political situation. Let me be honest with my readers. Listen up! I can’t provide you with any how-to directions. I can’t tell you with whom you might get a position as a wildcat lobbyist, or other particular details, but like it’s said so often, these are uncharted waters.

However, there are answers that can be found to some of these questions. But ask yourself, “Is it worth your time to research and to flesh out this job idea of a wildcat lobbyist as a possible career for yourself?” I see the opportunity here, and the chance to become a wildcat lobbyist can be possible today with new opportunities opening up. Well, remember this … only you can make it work.

Why the opportunity? Well, President Obama has chased the registered lobbyists of excessive influence away from his administration’s doorstep. If you read my earlier post on “Lobbyists and Our Economic woes” you would’ve learned how lobbyists were mostly unregulated under President Bush, and how the lobbyists were responsible for pitching complete deregulation for others so that greedy Wall Street was free to rape and wreck our economy.

Well, President Obama fixed that. Almost. The President has restricted lobbyists, as of this week, from talking to his administrative people about projects in his stimulus package. No more closed-door or back room deals. Wow! this is big bucks involved here ($700 Billion in the economic bailout and $787 Billion stimulus money).

Gawk! The lobbying ain’t over yet though. The restrictions are on the REGISTERED lobbyists. The door is wide open for non-registered lobbyists. Guess what? Washington law firms are already hiring NON-REGISTERED lobbyists. They’re under-the-table pitchmen. Can you snag a wildcat lobbyist job just opening up with a law firm, or how about being “unsigned” and doing it on your own? Now, do you see the possibilities here for non-registered lobbyist? Check it out as this will be the new evolution of the Washington bad boys.

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