Grades are out for the last quarter. I did better than I anticipated. I got 4.0 in both employment and ethics, and a 3.9 in civil procedures (which is the class I wasn't comfortable that I knew what I was doing). This boosts up my GPA a little bit, which makes me breath slightly easier as this next quarter I'll be taking geology and quantitative geology. The latter class is online, but is specifically dealing with the mathematical concepts of graphing as they relate to geology. I suspect it won't be an easy class for me. :/ I'm also doing my internship and taking business/corporate law.
The airline called me again to try and schedule a second interview, but I had to decline as I didn't think it fair to tell my internship site that I needed time off. I emailed the personnel coordinator at the airline later to explain why I was unavailable and as it turns out, no one else was available either so they're postponing the second interviews until the senior attorney returns from two weeks of labor negotiations in DC.
This has some plusses and minuses, much like the prospect of taking a job with the airline to begin with. I had hoped that by this week, they'd have made a decision (which had been their goal). That way, I could graciously drop out of my geology classes and do only night classes and still get the tuition refunded. Of course, I don't pay the tuition myself; I get a tuition waiver because I'm unemployed, but the state could certainly use the money. :) If they offer me the job and I've been in class a while, I'll have already cashed my student loan check and will then (after dropping the geology classes) need to pay the loan back immediately. That's the part that gives me grief. I need the loan to pay the mortgage; but if I cash it and then have to pay it back real soon, that would be pretty financially difficult for me. I suppose I should pin my hopes on getting the job and making gobs of cash so that I can pay the loan back quickly.
The other part is that I'm not sure I want to work at this law firm. They seem like really nice folks, but they are so awfully busy, no one had time to show me anything. So Thursday and Friday, I filed pretty much all day. Filing is worthwhile because it enabled me to get familiar with the cases the firm has and the style of the different attorneys. But reading the documents, I felt troubled that I wasn't pulling my weight. Here's a firm that needs help, apparently desperately, and I'm not at the point where I can do it. That bothers me, I hate not being at least minimally competent at something.
Oh, well. I'm really hoping to get the airline job now. I miss having a paycheck. I miss knowing what I'm doing and at the least I'd know what I'm doing as a secretary, with enough exposure and time to learn the legal side of things. It would be nice to work for an established company again. While I could enjoy working for the law firm, I think it would take all the months of my internship for me to build that confidence.
The airline called me again to try and schedule a second interview, but I had to decline as I didn't think it fair to tell my internship site that I needed time off. I emailed the personnel coordinator at the airline later to explain why I was unavailable and as it turns out, no one else was available either so they're postponing the second interviews until the senior attorney returns from two weeks of labor negotiations in DC.
This has some plusses and minuses, much like the prospect of taking a job with the airline to begin with. I had hoped that by this week, they'd have made a decision (which had been their goal). That way, I could graciously drop out of my geology classes and do only night classes and still get the tuition refunded. Of course, I don't pay the tuition myself; I get a tuition waiver because I'm unemployed, but the state could certainly use the money. :) If they offer me the job and I've been in class a while, I'll have already cashed my student loan check and will then (after dropping the geology classes) need to pay the loan back immediately. That's the part that gives me grief. I need the loan to pay the mortgage; but if I cash it and then have to pay it back real soon, that would be pretty financially difficult for me. I suppose I should pin my hopes on getting the job and making gobs of cash so that I can pay the loan back quickly.
The other part is that I'm not sure I want to work at this law firm. They seem like really nice folks, but they are so awfully busy, no one had time to show me anything. So Thursday and Friday, I filed pretty much all day. Filing is worthwhile because it enabled me to get familiar with the cases the firm has and the style of the different attorneys. But reading the documents, I felt troubled that I wasn't pulling my weight. Here's a firm that needs help, apparently desperately, and I'm not at the point where I can do it. That bothers me, I hate not being at least minimally competent at something.
Oh, well. I'm really hoping to get the airline job now. I miss having a paycheck. I miss knowing what I'm doing and at the least I'd know what I'm doing as a secretary, with enough exposure and time to learn the legal side of things. It would be nice to work for an established company again. While I could enjoy working for the law firm, I think it would take all the months of my internship for me to build that confidence.
posted by Owl Chick at 3/29/2003 06:29:00 PM
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