Ethical and moral demands of professional community organizing

It was in 1972 that I read the Playboy interview of Saul Alinsky. Inspired, I decided on the spot to make my profession community organizing. I had done a stint in the military as a radar technician, finished college with a major in sociology, worked as a deputy probation officer and as an executive in a national company, and was then working for the CAO of L.A. County. After reading Alinsky, I thought, that's what I'm going to do for the rest of my life: no more jobs. My idea of "professional" at that moment was getting paid to do what I really wanted to do. I had a lot to learn.