Paul T. Dacier – EMC Corporation
"My least favorite summer job was working for a landscaping company, waking up early and digging ditches. It was educational, but not fun. My favorite summer job was clerking for the public defender's office when I was in law school in Wisconsin."

Carol A. Starkey – Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford, LLP
"My favorite summer job was participating in grass roots community organizing for the mayoral campaign of Harold Washington in Chicago in the early eighties.  It changed my life by exposing me to inspirational leaders that encouraged me to obtain a law degree. My least favorite summer job was working in the Sears Men's Suits Department between high school and college, where I lasted less than eight weeks and discovered tailoring was not for me (no offense to that esteemed retail establishment)."

Bette J. Roth – Mediator - Arbitrator, RothADR
"My favorite summer job was during college, when I worked as a prep cook & dishwasher in a small, upscale restaurant in the White Mountains. The culture was so interesting and new to me – it was all about the food. The staff was small – just the owner/sommelier, the chef, and 2 waiters, and we all worked hard and laughed a lot. I learned about food and cooking, and enjoyed the amazing meals. By the end of the summer we were like family and I was sad to leave."

Robert H. Kelley – Staples, Inc.
"The summer before my senior year in college, I worked at a Cambridge geo-technical engineering firm. The job was great, except for a one-week assignment helping on a seismic survey in virgin forest in Rhode Island during the hottest part of the summer. The other students and I had to blaze a trail for the Jeep carrying the equipment. Then, while avoiding the poison ivy and bugs, we had to prepare several seismic survey sites. That involved digging forty six-inch deep holes in the forest floor (which was as hard as concrete) for the seismographs, plus digging one six-foot deep hole in which dynamite was placed. During the week, we prepared approximately one dozen such sites."

Laurie Alexander-Krom – Davis, Malm & D’Agostine, P.C.
"I grew up in upstate New York, and during vacation from college one summer, I had my least favorite summer job.  Dime Savings Bank opened, and I got a job as 'Miss Dime.'  I wore a banner that said 'Miss Dime' on it, smiled a lot and passed out cookies to customers.  I am not sure if this helped or hurt in the development of my marketing skills."

Tony Doniger – Sugarman, Rogers Barshak & Cohen, P.C.
"Pre-college, my best job was being a camp counselor, and my worst was drying cars in a carwash."

Rachel Zoob-Hill – Dwyer & Collora, LLP
"In the footsteps of my father I worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club one summer long ago. The camaraderie, incredible physical challenges, and solitary hikes in the spectacular Pemigewasset wilderness all crystallized for me that being a securities litigator would truly fulfill my destiny."