While we're at it, can we also require every congress critter to work a retail and/or food service industry job for at least one Congressional recess period every year? And if it interferes with their fundraising schedule, good, because regular people have to decide how to squeeze non-work activities into their full-time working schedules, too.
Roughly 102.6 million Americans (~70% of all payroll employees, not including farm workers) work in the service industry. Of those, 16 million work in retail. Not only will it give constituents a chance to really interact with their representatives, but their representatives will maybe begin to understand what day-to-day life is like for the majority of Americans. Sorry Paul Ryan, but working at McD's for a couple years in college is not the same as working there as an adult with a family to support or even as a single person with ordinary living expenses and loans or a mortgage.