Vantaggi
Some other junior editorial assistants in the same boat were great. Leaving your desk to brew tea.
Svantaggi
Where do I start? I was sold a lie. When offered the job I was told that I'd be doing research yet when it actually came down to it the only "research" one does is finding email addresses to spam. The work is mind-numbing and consists of emailing and phoning dozens of people a day, harassing them to attend conferences. That's it. Nothing more to it. If they don't reply immediately you're meant to keep badgering them until they tell you to get lost. Forgive me, but I don't like bothering people who clearly aren't interesting and speaking to you. If you want to burn all your bridges with the public and mindlessly copy-paste emails to random MPs then this is the job for you! Management was awful. Incredibly lazy and entitled. Constantly watching over your shoulder. They make you type up exactly what you did at the end of every day as though they weren't just watching you the entire time. Computers were incredibly slow! Perhaps this was a benefit because it took away time from email-bombing people. Abysmal pay. You're earning absolute pennies. Can't say I'm surprised since you're not actually doing anything of worth.