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Not so FAQs: Mike Smiszek

What led you to export controls?

I’ve never met anyone who said they wanted to work in export controls when they grew up. Forty years ago I was recently out of college and recently married, with a child on the way, and needed a job. I had made the poor decision of going to school for English literature – what was I thinking?! To eat or not to eat, that was the only question. So I found an entry-level position with a customs brokerage firm, which I leveraged into a corporate trade compliance ...

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