A failed politician
Jim Bob works professionally as a realtor. He’ makes a pretty hefty sum of money doing what he does. How else would he feed over 20 mouths, three times a day, every day of the year, for however many years they’re under his control? However, he once had aspirations of becoming a politician.
In fact, he was pretty successful before the cameras came a-rollin’. He served as a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for three years. When that stint was over, he ran for senate, but he came up short. Since then, he’s been out of the political sphere and showing us the inner-workings of his family on TLC.