Hillary Clinton says that cleaning Alaskan salmon helped prepare her for the White House.

In an interview on Thursday with theSkimm, a daily newsletter that focuses on women aged 22-34, Clinton said, “One of the best jobs I had to prepare me to be president was sliming fish in Alaska.”

“They were purple and black and yucky-looking,” she said in a 1992 New York Times article.
What Clinton didn’t mention in theSkimm, though, was that she was fired from the job within a week after asking too many questions, according to the Times.

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