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Dealing with unemployment?
How are other unemployed ladies handling it?? It's been more than 3 weeks since I finished the bar exam, and since then I've been going crazy, feeling super bored, and sometimes feeling a little depressed. Perhaps it's just the thought of so much debt weighing on me, or the idea that I might have to take a job as a receptionist or assistant after going to law school and working my butt off to get the degree. Although at this point in time, I would be happy with any office job I can get, and maybe I'll be a lawyer someday. Sorry to ramble, I just don't know what to do with myself. How are you ladies holding up??
Re: Dealing with unemployment?
After my friends and I graduated 4 years ago, probably a dozen of them took jobs doing document review for one of two of the bigger firms in Richmond. Might any Chicago firms be looking for people for doc review? You may have to look through a legal placement firm, but it was a really good way for them to gain experience (and make some money!) while waiting for their bar results and still looking for an associate position elsewhere.
Yes no?
TTC #1 since January 2013
I am not dealing with unemployment very well.
Even though I have a part-time job that I enjoy, it is completely unrelated to what I want to do and it rarely gives me 20 hours a week.
It has been 3.5 months since I graduated with my Master's Degree and I still can't find anything.
You are not alone!
Ouch. I'm sorry, Jamie. I figured you might've already explored that option but thought I'd throw it out there anyway. I *hate* seeing top 10% required, or top 10 school required. There are plenty of folks who get top grades at top schools and still have no clue how to function in a real live job, so those limitations are just ridiculous. And of course in this market, employers can get away with that crap, to their own detriment. Grrr.
I know it's too sunshiney to say it, but please don't give up hope! It's completely understandable to loathe the idea of working retail or fast food with your education. Don't you dare let anyone flame you for that, since you at LEAST deserve an office job. Keep checking the listings, and I hope something turns up for you.
TTC #1 since January 2013
I'm a Special Education teacher and unemployeed again. When I graduated college I got a job two months later. Then laid off..... then rehired two days before the school year started.... then at the end of this year laid off again. So now I'm on the job hunt.
It sucks and its frustrating but hang in there and something will come along.
Sorry, I may not know what I'm talking about concerning the limitations put on some of the firms to be in the top %10, or what not....but, I would still apply because you never know what might happen (or have you already tried?) Either way, hopefully something will pan out for you before too long.
On a different note, I'm going to show this to my DH because he keeps pushing me to get my masters in law (even though I have no interest in doing so) just so I can make big bucks and he can retire (a bit naive, huh?). Hopefully he'll stop razing me and understand that I want to enjoy what I do.
Is he joking when he says this?
Yeah; I'm an attorney and have been one for almost 2 years. DH took the February bar exam, passed but has not been admitted yet. He is still looking for something..anything! The legal market is terrible because there are too many law schools turning out too many law students!
What stinks is that after you've earned your law degree, if you apply for any other types of positions, employers look at your resume with a side eye and put it aside and classify you as overqualified.
So....advice...RUN do not walk from law school unless you really cannot see yourself as doing anything but becoming a lawyer. Oh and make sure you know what a lawyer actually does!
Good luck though! Have you found out results yet?
Sigh.
Yeah, this is wearing on me. I graduated in May with my Bachelor's and am still looking. I expected to be looking for a little while, but I hoped I would at least have an interview by now. But I can't complain too much I suppose; we're fine on one income and I could work retail if I needed. Right now I just wish I could find something that I at least kind of want to do and like. Staying at home gets old after a while.
Yeah, tell your DH that it's NOT worth it! Law school is horribly expensive, and very few attorneys actually end up super rich. In hindsight, I wish I hadn't gone. I like the law, and I know I'll be a good lawyer, but I don't have a pressing desire to practice law and the $150K debt is hard to swallow. My DH could never imagine being anything other than a lawyer...hopefully when he graduates in 2 years he'll have a better time finding a job!
Thanks for the words of encouragement, ladies. I know it's not the end of the world, but it's hard to deal with sometimes. And I totally understand what you mean, Amy. I'm so sick of sitting at home all day long and it's only been 3 weeks!
TTC #1 since 08/11 IUI#2 = BFP!
Not really, I don't think he realizes how competitive everything is...he just assumes that becoming a corporate attorney = big bucks because corporations spend huge amounts of money to defend their names and employees (which is true, but you don't walk out of the bar exam into a huge job like that....normally.)
I got laid off the end of February, and have yet to find steady work. I did some freelance work prior to the wedding and nothing since. Hard to believe I lost my job 6 months ago. I have to believe the tide will turn, but in the meantime it is a struggle.
I feel your pain.