January 13th 2006
please send waves
If you have a moment, send waves to my brother, whose beloved and beautiful boxer passed away this evening. Boris was a good dog.
i guess the easy way never really works out
So I submitted my resume to our career services office for winter on-campus-interviews. I thought that might be a nice way to kick-start my job search, or at least get me off my ass as far as completing my resume. (It actually did that.) Of course, I didn’t get any interviews.
Part of the problem, I think, is that my experience has been entirely non-legal. I noticed that a lot of my classmates who got interviews were the ones who worked as paralegals before coming to law school. That’s kind of annoying. I think my experience gives me breadth and allows me to approach legal issues with a different perspective. But I also know that a lot of big law firms don’t really care about that breadth, and they want a lot of little them-clones who are easy to mold–and who will be totally OK with working 80-hour weeks for the bulk of their middle-20s.
No, I am not bitter. I promise. I am a little annoyed that the easy way of getting interviews didn’t work. I am curious if the career center included our grades in the information they provided to the employers, because my grades should have helped me get an interview. I wonder if anything in my background right now will help me get ANY sort of interview at this point.
So that’s where I stand right now. I had planned to spend the weekend working on my writing sample anyway; now I’ll have to work on cover letters and revising my resume also. And I have a meeting on Monday with my career services advisor, so maybe she can give me some insight into my lack of interviews. (Of course, I don’t know how helpful she’ll be with the actual mechanics of getting more interviews, since her advice on cover letters for judicial externships was the most unhelpful advice I’ve ever been given. And cover letters are important for getting interviews.)
Seriously, I hate this.
rain, snow, what’s the difference? it’s all wet.
Dude. The weather is Crappy. Yes, crappy with a capital C. Crappy. I am currently watching a movie for my new class; I had to check it out from the library on reserve, so that means I have to go BACK out to return it on time this afternoon. Blech.
But the light at the end of the tunnel is that we’ll be having tortilla soup for dinner. So that makes it all better.
