Chelsea Clinton Exited Wall Street to Seek Career With Meaning

[marmar]

(Bloomberg) Chelsea Clinton says she left her career on Wall Street three years ago to find more purpose.

“Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn’t get any meaning from it,” says Clinton, 32, who worked from 2006 to 2009 as an associate at Avenue Capital Group LLC, a New York- based hedge fund firm. “I didn’t fundamentally become re- motivated every day in the way that I do now.”

Clinton has since earned a Master’s degree in public health from Columbia University, where she teaches a course in cross- national health policy, and is working on a PhD in international relations from Oxford University. She’s on the boards of IAC/Interactive Corp, the School of the American Ballet and Weill Cornell Medical College, and is a special correspondent for Comcast Corp.’s NBC television network.

She spoke about her Wall Street job in an interview at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting last week, fresh from a discussion about the future of Haiti. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-03/chelsea-clinton-exited-wall-street-to-seek-career-with-meaning.html

[snooper2]

1. LOL, I predict a good thread

now that I made me some money....

[n2doc]

2. Personally, I hope she does find it

She has obviously been blessed with intelligence, and has all the connections anyone could hope for. If she uses it all for good, then the country benefits.

[Kindly Refrain]

3. Obviously been blessed with intelligence?

So god decides who is going to be smart? The connections part I definitely agree with.

[n2doc]

5. She is getting a Ph. D. from OXFORD

And arguing about a turn of phrase is just petty.

[kestrel91316]

10. Intelligence can't be bought for any price, as Mittens so aptly demonstrates.

Call it biology or a gift from god - it's just a label. Connections couldn't confer intelligence on Dubya, either.

Take your militant atheism and stuff it. (Oh, and BTW, I am agnostic for the record)

[Kindly Refrain]

11. Take your record and stuff it.

Intelligence can't be bought but a Phd certainly has a price.

[Nye Bevan]

4. Good for her. I would like to think that if I earned several million dollars,

I would do something similarly altruistic.

[seabeyond]

6. it never felt like a good fit for her. i was surprised that is the direction she went.

glad to here she is looking at different paths.

[closeupready]

7. Good, glad to hear that. Big money can be seductive, but

unless you simply love acquiring money for it's own sake, most young people do eventually decide to pursue productive careers.

[hifiguy]

8. Good to hear and good for her.

I hope she finds her real passion in life. It is obvious that she will never have to worry about money, so do what calls to you, Ms Clinton.

[kestrel91316]

9. She got an MPH???? I don't know how I missed that! How wonderful!

And now she's TEACHING!!

All you Chelsea haters can now officially go suck an egg.