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Alternate version of "My Career as a Lawyer"

"As soon as school ended in June of 1942, I started to look for a summer job."

"I started writing this on August 28, 2005, the 42nd anniversary of the March on Washington."

"Observing my son's recent struggle to decide between two job possibilities, which may well determine his future, brought back my struggle to choose between a career in education or trade unionism."

"As I put together 'my story' it occurred to me that it is like the resumes we prepared when looking for a job..."

"After 2 1/2 years (from September 1951 to January 1954) working full time as an organizer for Local 38 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), and going full time to NYU, ostensibly working toward a PhD in Economics, and having…

"A couple of weeks ago, I was browsing the bookshelves of the Brookline Public Library and came across a book called 'Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War.'"

"In the fall of 1965, I went to work for the US Commission on Civil Rights as a Field Representative in Washington, DC. "

"In the summer of 1956, I called Manny Muravchik to ask to meet with him. I had been told that he knew just about everybody in the labor movement. "

"I recently read an excellent piece by Elaine Bernard of Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program in the Fall 2008 issue of DSA’s Democratic Left."