tall and gangly as a teenager, with the attendant emotional outbursts.

The job application process is months long, expensive and funded by the applicant and their supporters. It requires knocking on thousands of doors to win votes, to be greeted warmly or snubbed and sometimes lectured on the ways in which the city is going to hell in a handbasket.

And yet, every election season produces a new crop of hopefuls and a new crop of retirees — some of whom, like Doucette, have chosen to leave the job, and some of whom are pushed out by voters.

In 2018, with the province downsizing the number of city wards, more councillors than usual began packing up their bags the day after the election. We checked in with some of them tofind out what life has been like since leaving 100 Queen St. W.

The number one occupation for former councillors seems to be consulting — there is no shortage of public organizations and private firms happy to hire former city councillors. However, they must tread carefully — under city rules former councillors are not allowed to lobby current councillors or city staff for one year after their departure.

Josh Colle, who stepped down as the councillor for Eglinton-Lawrence in July 2018 to let his dad Mike Colle run (he won), and was once chair of the TTC, is now senior vice-president, infrastructure advisory, Ernst & Young.

Sidewalk Labs, the Google sister company behind the Quayside project, hired Mary-Margaret McMahon as director of community for the controversial project. McMahon is an advocate