If a Tree Falls. . . .
The silence has been deafening for me, too. My own silence probably has sounded louder to me over the past two months than it has to anybody else. But I have had nothing to say.
I still don’t have much to say. Especially for such an opinionated person. I seem to be watching in shock and awe (Mr. Bush finally achieved it here, at least) as everything the way I knew it seismically shifts around me.
I started this site to help you, whoever you are reading this. The truth is that I don’t know how to help you. I can’t even help myself. I don’t think that links to law firms that are actively decimating their ranks is useful to you. They weren’t doing it quite like this when I started. I don’t know what to put up here that would do anybody any good.
If anybody has any ideas and wants to share them, I would be pleased to take suggestions. The site is paid for and I have a lot of time on my hands, just like you do. I’ll leave it like it is until I have some reason to change it. I can only hope that it will be a change for the better, if it ever comes.
Please tell me that you have some good news about your employment.
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So, I was turned down for another job that I was incredibly qualified for. There were 1400 applicants, and I got an interview. That felt amazing, until the rejection letter was received. I thought I had hit a new low, by not getting this particular position. But then I got a call from a headhunter that I started working with 9 months ago. They have an interview scheduled for me. Over the past 9 months, I think I've had 5 interviews. I've looked for a new job every day; well maybe once I took a day off, but truly every day I look for a job; one that pays a livable wage.
I took a job that pays less than my unemployment was paying, so that I could get insurance benefits, and get out of that chair that has become the chair that I sit in when I'm not working. I didn't want to sit in the chair anymore, so I took a job where I learned how to draft foreclosure complaints. That is where the work is...it doesn't pay well, but it's steadily coming in the door. That's the sad part of it. What's ironic, is that I may be losing my house soon. I can't afford to pay my mortgage on these "foreclosure" wages, so I hope the interview next week will produce a real wage-earning life-sustaining salary. I've been told that this new job is probably only temporary...maybe they'll consider it to be permanent, depending on how much they like the person. Tough decision as to whether to quit the low-paying job with insurance benefits, for a higher-paying temp to perm position..... The real kicker was a comment from a "good friend" of mine yesterday. I told her how I just got turned down from the last job I applied for, and she told me to just pick up the phone and ask my old boss to call one of his friends, and have him get me a job. I told her that I have exhausted all job leads, from everyone I know, and that there simply weren't any jobs for me to get right now. She didn't believe me..
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Thank you for your site. It is a ghost town out there. I attended law school at night while working full time as a paralegal. I graduated with over seven years legal experience. I left my job my last year of school to pursue a fellowship. My J.D. just sits in its neat little package they mailed it in. I have received one interview since May, and that didn't go well at all. I email hundreds of resumes a week to anything that is listed. I apply for dog washing jobs at this point. I am glad I am not alone in this. It is so frustrating. I feel like noone gets it. I get alot of "you aren't trying hard enough" and "apply for anything". Oh, I do. Nobody wants to hire me as a waitress or a cashier either; I apply for those jobs too. Best of luck all you new grads. I was better off before I went to school.
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