Posted on 05/11/2016 1:59:41 PM PDT by Lorianne
The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and ex-secretary of state Hillary Clinton explained in a new interview why she left lucrative professions and opted for working with her family’s philanthropic foundation. ‘I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,’ she said.
Hillary Clinton insists she isn’t “well-off” and now daughter Chelsea says she couldn’t care less about money.
“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,” she told UK’s The Telegraph, explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family’s philanthropic foundation.
Comparing her experience to the average millennial, the 34-year-old former first daughter defended jumping around to different careers — from consulting to a hedge fund to academia to journalism — before finding her true calling working with her parents.
“It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents? I’ve tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents … it’s a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work, both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make,” she continued about her reluctant status as a boomerang kid.
The Clinton name likely opened doors for the political heiress, including an eye-popping $600,000 annual salary for an irregular stint as an NBC special correspondent, but Chelsea insists her work speaks for itself.
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She must think that people who care about money are selfish or greedy. Before she dies, she will care about money.
let me get this straight
SHE GAVE UP HER NO-SHOW LUCRATIVE SHAKEDOWN
and bee lined for the “FOUNDATION”.... which is a fraud according to experts
THIS STATEMENT SHOWS SHE IS A TRUE LYING CROOKED CLINTOON... IN THE FAMILY TRADITION .....
fugly
dishonest
PLEASE DISAPPEAR ....SOON AS POSSIBLE
the clintoons are disgusting crooked trailer park scumbags
Some can recover from a stink bomb and live to forget it.
Eaglevale Partners is not a phoenix, it is,was and always will be a stink bomb.
I love her nickname for her father. Webb
Once Hillary loses in November, the Clinton financial magic will evaporate.
Right now it’s all based on what gravy she can dispense from the WH to crony capitalists in the future.
When her political career is done, the party is over.
They’ll have to “get by” on a couple hundred mil in the CGI, unless she has to plea bargain servergate and pay a YUGE donation to Baraq for a POTUS pardon.
Perhaps a year at minimum wage could teach her more than a high level job in a mafia crime family?
$3 million for a wedding?
That’s serious dough.
Don and Melania was about a mil.
An extreme case of affluenza.
In a very unscientific study that I conducted in my spare time, I determined that of the many students that I dealt with who decided to "take a year off", fewer than half ever made it back.
As I said, not scientific but I'll bet that is not far off.
Didn't one of 0's kids just decide to go this way.
It will be interesting to see if she returns to school or takes up Burger King rioting when she's out of the public eye.
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