# Getting a Senate Internship **URL:** \ **Category:** Senate\ **Created:** [July 8, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/t/getting-a-senate-internship/59 "2025-07-08T17:46:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mageshsivakumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mageshsivakumar](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/u/mageshsivakumar)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/t/getting-a-senate-internship/59/1 "2025-07-08T17:46:33Z")
Hi everyone. I’m a first year student at community college and I wanna study polisci when I go to the university in my state. I really want a job in politics later, so I wanted to ask how people think I can get a job in the Senate. ---
**Author:** ![Liverpool20132014](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Liverpool20132014](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/u/Liverpool20132014)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/t/getting-a-senate-internship/59/2 "2025-07-08T20:44:10Z")
The Hill is a super in-person kind of place. If you want a job in the DC office, you’re going to have to find a way to network with ppl here. LinkedIn will help, but it’s limited given there are kids from George Mason/ GW / Georgetown all meeting staff in-person. In the interim, you should see if the senators / congressmen in your state have any openings or try connecting with the staff in the home office. ---
**Author:** ![CatholicResentment](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@CatholicResentment](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/u/CatholicResentment)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/t/getting-a-senate-internship/59/3 "2025-07-09T00:30:34Z")
Where in the country are you? ---
**Author:** ![IndebtedIrishman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/unanimousconsent.discourse.group/indebtedirishman/32/7_2.png) [@IndebtedIrishman](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/u/IndebtedIrishman)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/t/getting-a-senate-internship/59/4 "2025-07-09T02:38:49Z")
Be careful. You might wreck your life and your marriage. ---
**Author:** ![mageshsivakumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mageshsivakumar](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/u/mageshsivakumar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/t/getting-a-senate-internship/59/5 "2025-07-09T13:34:54Z")
Thanks for the detailed response! Do you have any recommendations on how to approach these ppl? Do you think LinkedIn Premium helps in getting more ppl to respond? Should I try approaching senators and congressment directly at rallies? ---
**Author:** ![mageshsivakumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mageshsivakumar](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/u/mageshsivakumar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/t/getting-a-senate-internship/59/6 "2025-07-09T13:37:31Z")
I’m from Idaho. Does that matter? ---
**Author:** ![mageshsivakumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mageshsivakumar](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/u/mageshsivakumar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/t/getting-a-senate-internship/59/7 "2025-07-09T14:06:50Z")
I’m obvi still very young but what happened to you? ---
**Author:** ![CatholicResentment](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@CatholicResentment](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/u/CatholicResentment)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/t/getting-a-senate-internship/59/8 "2025-07-10T01:59:57Z")
Offices will always prefer someone from the home state so Idaho is better since there aren’t as many people there. California is so competitive that it’s almost impossible. Is your rep Fulcher or Simpson? Might be easier to start on the House side. ---
**Author:** ![Vaught\_Hemingway](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/unanimousconsent.discourse.group/vaught_hemingway/32/9_2.png) [@Vaught\_Hemingway](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/u/Vaught_Hemingway)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/t/getting-a-senate-internship/59/10 "2025-07-10T02:13:00Z")
Linkedin Premium is great tho You get to feel richer than everyone else since it’s 40 a month ---
**Author:** ![deftonesgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@deftonesgirl](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/u/deftonesgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 9:31am UTC](https://unanimousconsent.discourse.group/t/getting-a-senate-internship/59/11 "2026-01-14T09:31:10Z")
You don’t necessarily have to have a Senate internship to work in politics. I worked the 2024 cycle (and as a researcher in 2025) at a consulting firm and had no prior experience except political journalism in college. Luck is much of what goes into it. Maybe I was just “lucky” but I never set on having a career in politics, and I don’t work in the field now for various reasons. My colleague had a Senate internship after our cycle based job ended, so there’s no right or wrong way. Politics can be very brutal — know what you’re getting yourself into. You won’t change the world at the junior level, but maybe you can help elect someone who will.