When profession and politics collide.

[Allenberg]

As if I'm cursed, I was a signals intelligence analyst in the military for six years. I'm also anti-war and a member of the ACLU. Needless to say, very few of my colleagues at the National Security Agency were fellow card-carrying members. So, this presented a dilemma, and I got out of the military.

Flash forward to now. I'm now a pre-contract agent with Bankers Life and Casualty, and it comes to my attention, through the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (kind of like the AMA for docs and the Bar Association for lawyers) that most insurance reform legislation proposed by Democrats would in some ways harm the bottom line of insurance companies, which would be filtered down to agents like myself.

Once again, I find myself in a politics-vs-profession battle. This job I got will pay really well, and will let me be able to provide for my family. The way I see it, I'm once again selling out my morals to make a buck, but hey, a guy's gotta feed his family. I feel I do my part my donating money to Democratic candidates, the DNC, MoveOn, and Democracy for America. It's my own private justification.

Does anyone else face this situation in their professional lives?