The Presidency: The Longest-Held Full-Time Job of Obama's Life.

(By Jim Geraghty, National Review Online) - A stunning, yet accurate statement from Campaign Spot reader Tim: If Barack Obama serves a full term as president, it will be the longest time he has served in a full-time job. He spent about a year and change working for a financial publication in Manhattan, then three years as a community organizer, then three years in law school. After that, his time was divided among several jobs that were not quite full time — one year organizing voter registration drives for Project Vote!, associate attorney with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, senior lecturer at University of Chicago Law School, and state legislator.

He's been a U.S. senator since January 4, 2005, and so it would be just over four years when he takes office January 20, 2009. Having said that, any honest observer would admit that Obama hasn't been treating his Senate seat as a full-time job for the past few years.

Obama '08: He'll Get Bored Quickly Anyway.