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	from Jen Hubley Way back when I was a lowly English major, I took a career development course. The inspiration for this was that I was pretty sure that I was going to wind up unemployed in a gutter somewhere, with only the Riverside Shakespeare to comfort me. The class itself wasn't very helpful. (Short version: The instructor pretty much told me I was right.)
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