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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is saying that if he were required to work a conventional job, he would choose to teach history. He implies that teaching history is a meaningful or appealing alternative to his actual career.

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