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In 2009, Cameka Smith got laid off from Chicago Public Schools and did something most people probably would have talked her out of. She was 29, had a Master’s degree, had been working since she was 12, and going back to find another job was basically a given.
Instead, she gave herself a year to figure it out.
“I’m going
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