Valerie Jarrett - I finally said, 'I don't care if you're the first person in your famil...

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I finally said, 'I don't care if you're the first person in your family to be a lawyer.' Everybody thought what I was doing was really exciting, but it was not moving me one bit. And that's when I decided to join city government in Chicago, and that changed my life.

Valerie Jarrett

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich sagte schließlich: "Es ist mir egal, ob Sie die erste Person in Ihrer Familie sind, die Rechtsanwalt ist." Alle dachten, ich würde wirklich aufregend sein, was mich aber nicht bewegte. Und da habe ich beschlossen, mich der Stadtregierung in Chicago anzuschließen, und das hat mein Leben verändert.

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