The Boss: All Learning Comes to Use
October 31, 2009 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
I GREW up in Brooklyn, one of four children. My father was a project manager for an advertising agency. We probably had less money than I realized. I didn’t know that my mother waited until Friday to go food shopping because that’s when my father could give her money.
ELLEN ZIMILES
Chief executive, Daylight Forensic and Advisory, Manhattan
AGE 49
ALWAYS WITH HER BlackBerry and reading glasses
RECENTLY READ Power Ambition Glory by Steve Forbes and John Prevas
When I was about 7, my father taught me a lesson I’ve never forgotten about standing up for yourself. When we were taking a walk during the High Holy Days, six or seven teenagers on a corner started yelling ethnic slurs. My father walked up to the group and calmly asked if they had a problem. He defused the situation in a few seconds.
After majoring in speech pathology and audiology as an undergraduate, I got a law degree and worked at a New York law firm. I worked on a case with a lawyer who had been assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York. He advised me to apply there, which …
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