Michelle Obama lauds community service & volunteerism
From MSNBC
For Michelle Obama, corporate law turned out not to be the career she wanted to look back on at the end of her life.
“I had to ask myself whether, if I died tomorrow, would I want this to be my legacy, working in a corporate firm, working for big companies,” the first lady told employees of the federal agency tasked with managing public service programs. “And when I asked myself the question, the resounding answer was, absolutely not.”
Mrs. Obama spoke Tuesday to about 250 employees of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the latest stop on her listening tour of the federal bureaucracy.
The deaths of her father and a close friend made her realize that she needed a change in direction, she said, and led her to quit her job at a law firm and choose a career in public service. She helped to establish Chicago’s chapter of Public Allies, an AmeriCorps community service program that trained young people for jobs in the nonprofit world.
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