In the video below he talks about his first summer job, as an office assistant at a federal research lab in Maryland, where his responsibilites included mopping up the mess after safety showers were tested.

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As a single mother, Ms Fortney jumped on the chance to double her salary as a legal assistant when her former boss opened an office in Washington.

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Spitzer worked as an attorney in the public and private sectors before he was elected attorney general, including serving as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan district attorney's office from 1986 to 1992.

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In her more recent quest to become a lawyer in her native country, Sengupta lied to a British law chamber, saying she had been employed as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's office, prosecutors said.

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His career began properly in 1953 when he walked into the CBS office in New York and persuaded network officials to give him a job as an assistant director.

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