Spent the morning applying for jobs.

After looking over the tarot cards and going with my own gut feelings, I am really not sure I want to stay where I'm at once the internship is over. They might want me to, and I do like the people I've been working with...but I am just feeling something odd about the place.

Next week, a new legal secretary will start. The paralegal who lost her job will have to train her, which strikes me as a bit odd. If her attorney doesn't like how she does things, why would he want her to train the new person? Anyway, he told me he really wanted someone with experience and that's why he wasn't going to hire me. Rob and I talked it over (between Amish things) and we suspect that perhaps the attorney doesn't want to pay me. The current paralegal is making less than I am, and I'm the summer intern. When she told me that, I had to not stare at her in horror. I can't believe anyone with a college degree would work for so little money.

Of course, it's easy for me to think that, but it's a tough job market out there. I don't even read the articles that explain why it's so tough anymore because I'm living that tough market and reading about other folks going through it doesn't make me any easier in my mind.

On the brighter side, I did a tarot card reading for the paralegal who's leaving, and it turned out some encouraging prospects for her. I was a bit worried; what if it showed doom and gloom? So first I did the cards, then I told her that it was about her. She thought it was great fun to have someone do that for her :) Although I suspect if it hadn't turned out so optimistic, she might not have been so appreciative. And I do like her, even if she's rather spastic (she keeps running into things and has bumps on her shins and her forehead) and blonde (I had to show her how to use a typewriter).