beable

A smaller question perhaps - but what's the actual day-to-day job of a Secretary of Labor? Is it researching or proposing or lobbying or some combination of them?

I don't think I've ever been so envious.

The profession is one that is often misunderstood and considered to be elitist / upper class / ridiculously British.

OK - so how upper class are you? Cambridge/Oxford? 'public' school? How about your peers? What about the solicitors - I have an impression of them as being more upper crust than the barristers actually.