Yesterday I reminded my attorney/supervisor that my instructor is coming on Friday for a mid-term progress meeting. As we talked, Mark said suddenly, "We should just hire you already; we're going to anyway." At which, as usual, I squealed, "You are!?" Probably broke a few panes of the new glass in the walls.

He warned me that it's answering phones and other non-paralegal stuff at first, which is what I've been expecting anyway. In some respects, I almost want that as I feel so out of my element when people around me talk about things that I've seen only in theory. The other day I was constructing a table of authorities with one of the associates (wherein you list every case and statute cited in your legal brief, giving page numbers for each time they appear) and we missed our court filing deadline. Whoopsie. :(

I'm planning my next quarter's schedule to be wide-open days for the possibility of working. The thing is, I'm still not sure I want to be there. Yet, it is a job that will provide experience and that's what I really need right now to get where I want to be. I look at my career plan, which we each had to write out last quarter for our professional development seminar. Mine said that I'd be willing to work anywhere to get experience for three years, after which I'd have to start making a move to the job I really want because I'm getting close to retirement.

Heh! :) That makes me feel so old!

I still look through game company ads too, not that I have the type or depth of experience any of these places are looking for. But it's nice to look at them and dream; after all, a sizable chunk of companies are within 45 minutes of my home. If I were a real gamer grrrl I'd be in heaven.

Yesterday I reminded my attorney/supervisor that my instructor is coming on Friday for a mid-term progress meeting. As we talked, Mark said suddenly, "We should just hire you already; we're going to anyway." At which, as usual, I squealed, "You are!?" Probably broke a few panes of the new glass in the walls.

He warned me that it's answering phones and other non-paralegal stuff at first, which is what I've been expecting anyway. In some respects, I almost want that as I feel so out of my element when people around me talk about things that I've seen only in theory. The other day I was constructing a table of authorities with one of the associates (wherein you list every case and statute cited in your legal brief, giving page numbers for each time they appear) and we missed our court filing deadline. Whoopsie. :(

I'm planning my next quarter's schedule to be wide-open days for the possibility of working. The thing is, I'm still not sure I want to be there. Yet, it is a job that will provide experience and that's what I really need right now to get where I want to be. I look at my career plan, which we each had to write out last quarter for our professional development seminar. Mine said that I'd be willing to work anywhere to get experience for three years, after which I'd have to start making a move to the job I really want because I'm getting close to retirement.

Heh! :) That makes me feel so old!

I still look through game company ads too, not that I have the type or depth of experience any of these places are looking for. But it's nice to look at them and dream; after all, a sizable chunk of companies are within 45 minutes of my home. If I were a real gamer grrrl I'd be in heaven.