Job Hunt

I have not fulling described the difficulty I have expienced in finding a "law job" this summer beyond the fact that I do not hear back from prospective employers. The fact is that some people have had jobs lined up since sometime last winter, while there are plenty of people who are simply doing what I am doing: taking classes. The seemingly futile attempt to find a job got me down for the last couple of weeks, but I are starting to accept the situation. This does not mean that I am giving up, but rather, I am simply trying to get better. I have never really tried to get a "real job." I have always either been in school or working in non-professional positions, which I use as a term of art, because many of my friends who I worked with at those jobs were doing professional work as theatrical designers, chefs, or arborists to name a few. So when I found two rejection e-mails in my now organized inbox, I took this moment as an opportunity to rejuvinate my job hunt rather than fall into a slump of unemployed rejection. Although, I am trying something new. First, I sent off a hard copy of my cover letter and resume to two new potential employers. I have had such little success with e-mail, I thought I would be better of with hard copies. Then, on Thursday or Friday, I am going to telephone the employers to check up to see that they received my resume. No more waiting around wondering if employers had ever even noticed my e-mails.

In the mean time, I start my second day of voluneering today. I am working with a non-profit law center whose major work consists of helping homeless individuals and families to secure their disability benefits. On my first day I worked with a seventy year old gentleman who I could barely hear and a middle aged man who fought with the CIA in Laos in the 70's. He was 12 and from my understanding, we weren't in Laos. Right? It feels good to actually be doing something in the law. This work is so different from what we learned during our first year, which seems like an abstraction now.