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Paid to be a College Republican…
By cement mixer | May 4, 2008
…doesn’t get much better than that!
Have FUN! Make a DIFFERENCE! Get PAID!
If that sounds good to you, the CRNC is still accepting applications by e-mail at wcrosswell@crnc.org.
Send in your application today, help elect a president tomorrow!
Topics: CRNC |
May 5th, 2008 at 11:06 am
You may have fun and get paid, but I don’t think you’ll be making much of a difference.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Field Reps are pivotal in our volunteer effort. As a former CCR field rep, the job is beyond rewarding and the difference you’re making it quite noticeable. I expect the CRNC field rep program under Will Crosswell to be the best yet.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
You should check out the field program for leadership institute. it allows field reps to promote the conservative cause on college campuses and pays $15,000 for the semester, about 3 times as much as the crnc.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
The Leadership Institute is a scam. They pay so much because very few people want to work there.
LI claims to have more than 1000 active student groups, but they never remove from their list those that no longer exist. They offer pay incentives for starting groups and most of those that are created are through friends of the field reps. Plus, since LI gives you deadlines by which you must start a certain number of groups, many are fake and started just to help the field reps make their quotas.
LI is terribly micromanaged and has an extremely high turnover rate. I know a ton of former LI employees and they hate the organization with a passion.
With LI, you don’t go around promoting the “conservative cause.” What you do is beg students to start frivolous “pro life” and “support the troups” groups that fizzle out after a semester.
Someone I know once put it best: you work at LI because you can’t work anywhere else. It should be no surprise that many of the people who once worked there are stuck in crappy jobs or bottom-ranked grad schools (Ave Maria anyone?).
The training that LI provides around the country is decent, but their Campus Leadership Program (what the field reps work for) is complete garbage and totally ineffective.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Wow, something hit a nerve. Relax my man.
What you’re saying is simply incorrect. LI does not pay by incentive. It is a straight $15,000 for the semester, $5,000 a month, and most of that is paid in per diem tax free income.
You receive a check every two weeks. You also receive a free laptop and one year of free tuition to LI schools. There is also no numerical benchmark. Field Reps are held to a standard just like any other job. There are measurables but not benchmarks. No one is terminated because they didn’t start a certain amount of clubs.
Former LI Field Reps have full time jobs at Leadership Institute, NRA, ISI, National Right to Life, National Right to Work, Freedomworks, are managing campaigns, or are even running for office, just to name a few.
It is unfortunate you have a negative opinion of the LI Field Program, however I think you may just have received some false information or had a bad experience with it. You should really look more into it.
The job is fun, you get to help students not only form groups but raise money, hold protests, and build strong organizations. The pay is substantial, and it is gold for a resume. Check it out.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Isn’t LI the ones who took the people the CRNC fired?
I’ve met several LI reps, they were the biggest freak show in town. Each one that came to my school tried to pull kids out of my chapter to work on “conservative newspapers” which lasted about a month, and NOT do activity to help candidates for office, which is what CR’s is supposed to be all about. Go post your propaganda on some other blog Jason, LI is bad news, and it tears CR chapters apart.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Gold for a resume? Riiight… That’s why so many LI people are at Ave Maria law and others are all working in conservative nonprofits. No offense, but they seem limited to a very small field of work.
In addition, I think an indicator of the quality of a job is the people who take it. If that is the case, then being an LI field rep is not a very good choice. So many of the field reps (and their CSCs) that I’ve met are low-quality workers who come from random, unknown tiny schools and have very little potential.
LI also begs and begs people to work for them. If the job was solid gold on a resume, it wouldn’t have to try so hard to recruit people. Instead, they would be lining up ready to work.
LI used to pay by incentive as recent as last year. Perhaps they changed that. Even so, don’t count on having a good work experience there. LI is severely micromanaged by incompetent people and many of the CSCs you’ll work under are the loony activist type.
You say that LI people are working full-time jobs at Leadership Institute, NRA, ISI, National Right to Life, National Right to Work, and Freedomworks. No offense, but those aren’t exactly the kind of places one aspires to work at. The NRA is decent, but still not the optimal place to work. If LI was really successful, you’d see a lot more people in office, working as successful businessmen and attorneys, and holding other jobs besides conservative non-profit positions. However, that’s generally where LI people work.
I’ve come across a lot of LI people and I hate to say it, but they’re incompetent loony activists. They work at LI because they can’t cut it somewhere else and think it will get them into politics. What they don’t realize is that it kind of pigeonholes them into crappy jobs at conservative non-profits.
As much as I dislike the CRNC, a lot of successful people come out of jobs with that organization. I tend to look at it this way: the people working for the CRNC and some state orgs are the future operatives and power-brokers. The LI people, however, are the future annoying non-profit bottom-feeders who beg for money the rest of their lives while trying to convince themselves that they are important.
If you want to be a field rep, go work for the CRNC. You’ll meet a much higher-quality person and have better opportunities afterwards.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Not to debate the merits of the LI ot CRNC programs, but your just wrong saying that LI is a negative thing. It’s a job for recent graduates who want to work in politics. In THIS ECONOMY, are you seriously going to say that finding a decent paying job in politics is a bad move for any politically active recent grad?
Furthermore, won’t CRNC field reps this semester be promoting McCain? Perhaps some people are more interested in working for a conservative cause instead of the less of two evils.