July 29, 2015 — 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.”
She described the attire for the job as hip boots, an apron and a spoon. Clinton said the salmon would be brought in and slit open, the caviar would be taken out — and then, it was her time to shine.
“My job was to grab them, and these are big fish, and to take a spoon and clean out the insides … best preparation for being in Washington that you can possibly imagine,” Clinton said.
“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. (“I found another job,” she told the paper.)