"Kids on the Hill"

An article was recently published in the Ottawa Citizen, titled "Kids on the Hill". It refers to the number of young adults working in high-level, high-paid positions, with the wonder of how they have gained enough experience to actually qualify for the job. (For example, 26 y/o Jasmine Macdonnell - Minister Lisa Raitt's 'director of communications', who oddly enough has family ties to the Ignatieff campaign). Well, an argument was made that the majority of the Kids on the Hill had in fact, graduated with a masters degree, or even a law degree by the time they were 23.

True. However - I've draftd my own message to these kids as their 'letter of offer' for these high-level, high-paid positions.

"So congratulations you're hired - your salary is around.. oh.. $120,000! YAY! But don't spend it all in one place, don't get a massive mortgage because elections can be called (and often threatened) bi-annually, and you'll be canned. Don't leave your papers and/or tech equipment in bathrooms and/or news stations, or you'll be canned. And don't forget as well that at any time we'll drop you to an IS-03 in DFAIT if you seem just slightly more 'liberal' than usual".

I'm quite content now with my little job where climbin the ladder through competitions, and working hard will get you where you should be - not just want to be. And getting canned is definitely your fault, and hard to do.

I attached the link to the article below - I think it's actually quite well written, gets the good points across.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Kids+Hill/1716210/story.html