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Originally posted by juniorgrrl
I'm in a graduate program (law school) and I'm still having adjustment problems.
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I'm not in love with law school. But its better than not having a job in this economy.
All of my other friends are in a funk right now two. Boyfriend is unemployed. One former roomate is in Med School and having trouble adjusting. Another is working full time, applying to PA school for the fall, getting married in April, and hoping that her fiance gets into med school for the fall.
Quarterlife crises suck
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Oh dear. See, I went to law school because I didn't really know what to do next. That is the
worst reason to go to law school. Fortunately, I started to find my way a bit more. I started to get settled during my second year, but it took until my third year for me to really figure out a bit about what was going on.
However, a lot of what happens in law school is geared for people who know what they want to do. [I cut a long-winded gripe about On-Campus Recruiting from here; suffice to say it was useless to me because I knew I was leaving town but didn't know where I'd be going.]
I graduated in May. Now, I've moved to Denver (from Minneapolis), I've taken the bar (results in October), and I'm looking for jobs. The market is
difficult right now. Larger firms recruit their new attorneys from OCI and their summer programs, so I'm a year or so too late for that, though I'm not really the large-firm type anyway. But large firms are laying off a lot right now, and the lateral commotion is making it tougher for us fresh-out-of-school folks to get jobs. Why hire a new associate when you can hire someone with 3 years of experience laterally? It's making the search a little harder. I'm looking for legal work and at possible alternatives.
Only an insane person can be in love with law school, so at least you're probably sane.
What year are you in school? It does get a lot better as time goes on. My 1L year was the worst year of my life. There were other things going on, but school made it almost impossible for me to cope with them.
Best wishes to you! I'm always sympathetic to anyone trying to deal with law school! Although there are people there to help you deal with law school, they tend to fail to realize that at least the younger groups of law students still have all of the questions that people at our stage of life ordinarily have.
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