James Talarico

Electrician.

No, I mean— So important.

And you make a—

A lot more money.

I mean, the guys I went to high school with that have a boat out at Lake Travis are not the ones who went to a four-year university like I did.

But, you know, I...

So I mentioned to you before I was a politician, I was a public school teacher, which is kind of an unusual route to serving.

What did you teach?

I taught sixth grade language arts at Rhodes Middle School.

Oh, so that's something that's valuable.

I often say teaching middle school is the best preparation for politics.

It's a lot more like middle school than people think.

The egos, the drama, you know, just all of it is.

Isn't it crazy how no one gets past that?

Yeah.

I mean, well, we could talk about this all day, but I have, there are lots of stories I have where I'm just blown away by the

And again, I have an ego.

You have an ego.

There's no way you can do this kind of difficult work without an ego that, you know, to be able to say, I want to make decisions for 200,000 constituents.

I mean, that's the job I have, right?