Just about the time that you think that Sherron Watkins has faded back into obscurity, she finds yet another way to promote herself:

Sherron Watkins, the former vice president at Enron who tried to blow the whistle on the accounting violations at the scandal-plagued Houston energy-trading giant, told an audience at a seminar Friday on the new whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act that she and other whistleblower employees would probably take their concerns to WikiLeaks rather than the Securities and Exchange Commission now.

“People now will go to WikiLeaks to protect themselves,” she said during a briefing at the New York State Society of CPAs’ Foundation for Accounting Education offices in Manhattan. “WikiLeaks is a huge, huge sledgehammer that many employees will go to. People like myself will just go to WikiLeaks.”

Watkins, a CPA, said that since she came forward, she has been unable to get a job in corporate America despite her years of experience as an accountant and portfolio manager.

“The label whistleblower is stuck on my head,” she said. She now makes her living by giving speeches, and said she has heard from other whistleblowers about their inability to get jobs in their old occupations.

She was never a whistleblower.

I wonder whether Watkins’ difficulty in finding a job “in corporate America” is at least partly attributable to the fact that most prospective employers are not inclined to hire someone for a management position who disingenuously presented herself to Congress, the mainstream media and the public as a whistleblower when she really wasn’t?