Career Shift: From Radical to Corporate Suit to English Teacher
After this former campus radical was laid off, he found the job of his lifetime
April 18, 2012
James S. Kunen wrote The Strawberry Statement, the best-seller recounting his participation in the 1968 anti-war uprising at Columbia University, and went on to become a public defender, a freelance journalist, a People magazine editor, and a corporate communications executive at Time Warner. Laid off at 59, he embarked on a quest for meaning in work and life that he chronicles in his new book, Diary of a Company Man: Losing a Job, Finding a Life.