A year later, Warren’s husband was again transferred and she was offered a job at the University of Houston. Instead, she was offered a job teaching at Rutgers. Warren was pregnant with her second child when she graduated Rutgers, making difficult for her to find a job with a law firm. She decided to go to law school and was accepted to Rutgers. Instead, Warren decided to return to school.

Warren was bored staying at home with her child, but suspected her husband would not want her to get another job. Warren worked a year as a speech therapist, but when she became pregnant, she was not offered a position the following year. Warren’s husband received a job transfer and they moved to New Jersey a short time later. Warren transferred to University of Houston and finished her degree. Warren, however, found a way to fund her college education and attended two years at George Washington University before reuniting with a former high school beau and getting married. Warren’s mother felt that she would be better off getting married and becoming a mother. Warren wanted to go to college, but her mother tried to talk her out of it. They were on the verge of losing their house when Warren’s mother got a job as a phone operator for Sears. As a shy man, this job was not enough to provide for his family. He lost his good paying job and was stuck in a sales job that paid him on commission. When Warren was only twelve, her father had a heart attack. A Fighting Chance is a memoir that not only introduces Elizabeth Warren to those who might know about her, but shows the American middle-class that there is still someone out there fighting for them.Įlizabeth Warren was a late-in-life baby who came into her family after her three older brothers were nearly full grown. In the end, Warren decided her fight was not over, so she took it into a campaign for the United States Senate. where she served on two committees before pushing the creation of a new federal agency that would oversee consumer financial products in order to protect consumers from unfair practices like those that contributed to the mortgage crisis. This mission took Elizabeth to Washington, D.C.

After her divorce, Warren married a good man who supported her career and encouraged her to fight for the things she thought were important. Warren had to fight her parents to go to school and then she had to fight her first husband to continue her education and to hold down a full time job while raising two children. When Warren’s father had a heart attack and lost his job, her mother had to take a job to support the family. Warren began life in a middle-class home in Oklahoma. A Fighting Chance is a memoir by Elizabeth Warren.

A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren