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Lawyer turns to housekeeping to pay bills

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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.

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"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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