So after watching the movie "Julie and Julia" and carefully considering the level of dedication involved in creating a blog, I believe I have just signed up for a rather difficult task. This first blog entry will provide those who care with a bit of a background into my life and how I stumbled upon blogging.
Although I haven't had much of an interesting life, I have definitely had my share of quirky and rather humorous experiences over the course of my 27 years. The bulk of my past is irrelevant at this point but for present purposes the only necessary facts stem from the events which took place from a year in the not so distant future.
It was a huge year in my life. Not only did I get engaged to the love of my life but I also made a decision that would impact the rest of my life...I took the LSAT and applied to law schools. To make a long story somewhat shorter, I made the hard decision of going to law school in Michigan. After 3 years of law school, I finally felt comfortable living in the state of the arctic winters (and I thought New York was bad in the winter). However, it was always the plan that I would move back home right after graduation and sit for the NY Bar Exam. So just as planned, at the end of May I began Bar prep classes, studied my tushy off, basically giving up all social activities and prayed that I would pass this ominous Exam on the first try. Finally, the 2-day Exam came and went and waiting until mid-November to find out the results probably caused more havoc on my mind than the actual studying. You can all stop holding your breath or thinking that I failed because I actually PASSED ON THE FIRST TRY! I believe that it was one of the biggest accomplishments of my life (probably doesn't speak much about me, but oh well).
Anyway, I wasn't one of those people who had tons of family connections or went to a top tier law school and had a job waiting for me as soon as I graduated. Nope, although I consider myself a very intelligent and hard-working person, someone who could have been one of those people, I wasn't and I just had to deal with it. After I passed the exam, I revised my resume and continued sending my resume out through craigslist and various law school career sites. In December, just when I thought it would take another couple months to find that first job, 2 different firms expressed interest and wanted to schedule interviews. Silly me, being really anxious to nab a job, I went to the first interview with this small firm. The interview could not have been more perfect. I thought, "Wow, I aced this, how could they not love me." Sure enough I was offered the job on the spot. I was shocked and couldn't believe that even happens in real life. I thought there were usually rounds of interviews, not instantaneous offers.
In retrospect, I should have said thank you for your offer and told them I needed a few days to think about it. I still don't know if the couple days of thinking would have changed my ultimate answer but it was definitely silly to immediately say yes to a job. Of course, all the crucial questions were asked by me before I accepted. I was told there was no vacation for 1 year, there would be health insurance after a certain period of months, and of course the salary. I thought no vacation for 1 year was probably normal, wasn't 100% sure that was the common practice in law firms but who was I to argue considering I knew nothing. It was conveyed to me by the partner that the firm was very generous with salaries and bonuses so that aspect obviously sounded very appealing, as it would to any new attorney who had hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans to pay off.
So I started the job with the law firm whose name I will not disclose but instead will name it "Tiny Unimportant Law Firm" a/k/a "TULF"
My next blog entry will delve into some of the rather interesting experiences I encountered while working at TULF. For now, I'm off to bed, leaving those of you who are reading this with a final thought: Just because you are a very educated individual, doesn't mean you have the ability to act like an animal and treat human beings like less, yet what is it in your mind that makes you think it's acceptable?
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