Most state senators are retired, semi-retired or in a position to take significant time away from their primary jobs, according to current and former state senators and financial disclosure forms. The National Conference of State Legislatures counts Nebraska among 26 “hybrid” state legislatures where the job equates to more than two-thirds of full-time and pay usually is too low to be a person’s only income. “I wanted to be able to make being a state senator my top priority, and it is very difficult to find work that will work around that,” said McGill Johnson, who now serves on the Millard school board and heads Nebraska Cures and Research Nebraska.