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NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- An out-of-work New York attorney says she has turned to housekeeping for people who have "always wanted to see a lawyer clean a toilet."
Alice Lingo, 29, told the New York Daily News she spent a year looking for a job as a lawyer after losing her $160,000-a-year litigator position to the economic recession and she is now posting fliers in Manhattan's upper West Side offering to tidy up other people's homes.
"Haven't you always wanted to see a lawyer clean a toilet?" Lingo's flier reads.
"I made the joke that I always wanted a job that makes people smile," Lingo said. "This job does. They come home and see their home clean."
Lingo, a 2007 graduate of Fordham University School of Law, said she sent out more than 308 resumes and cover letters but has yet to find a job.
"From the moment I stopped working till now, I haven't stopped looking for a job," she said.
Lingo said her fliers haven't gotten her any business yet but she'd be willing to take as little as $70 to clean a one-bedroom apartment.
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