3. She left a $120,000 job as a law firm associate when she moved to city hall for public service
“Although Michelle had concluded that finances would not be the deciding factor in her professional choices, the quest for fulfillment was going to cost her. Leaving Sidley for City Hall meant cutting her salary roughly in half, to $60,000 a year, when she still had significant student loan debt. ‘It just seemed incredible at the time that she would leave,” Angela Kennedy, her Princeton friend, said.
