Jobs... as if we didn't have enough to think about.

It was somewhere between a review of Actus Reus and looking up the "ghost" sighting on Three Men and a Baby that I had a shocking revelation...

I need to find a job.

Plain and simple. Well, plain... maybe not all that simple. While studying I've managed to get a few applications in around the area (Legislative Research Commission, Office of the Governor, StudentsFirst....). I'm now in summer job purgatory. Waiting... watching my inbox... occasionally hitting "refresh"... but knowing that I'm not likely to hear today... but maybe tomorrow!

Our Mock Interview session this past weekend elevated my confidence and really made me enthusiastic about the entire job-hunting experience. Now that I know I can make my way gracefully through an interview session (a LAW interview session... lest we forget that LAW is different...)* I'm just chomping at the bit to give it a go... for real this time. Now all I need is an interview...

What is frustrating me the most is the fact that Education is "all the rage" in policy/news these days. I watch the news pipe on about JCPS and whatever crisis they are currently in and I think "oh, oh, oh.... why not me? Ask me my opinion! I can help you! I promise!!" But, Sigh, despite my past teaching experience, a Masters degree, and a two page resume... I doubt they want to hear from me.

At least... right now... maybe later.

My question is... how do I get to this hypothetical LATER-ness? What summer job, what experiences (paid, unpaid, etc) will get me there? Who do I have to meet? Who do I need to make an impression with so that when the topic of education reform pops into conversation the first person they think of is ME?

So many questions... very few answers... and I still have to study.

*In my opinion LAW is not different. It's a career, a life-choice, and a serious one to boot. Treat it as such and I don't see how you could not be successful. Treat it like a job, be serious about it, and you can't fail. 

New Year, New Semester

"She packed up her potential and all she had learned, grabbed a cute pair of shoes and headed out to change a few things."

You know, there are few things that I love more than "newness." Today, I have plenty of that! New Year, new semester, new perspective.... new new new! As horrid as it may appear, I'm really grateful to be here, sitting in this random part of the law library at 8:00 in the morning. I left here a month ago completely unsure of my first semester and myself. I'm returning with a renewed confidence and understanding that, yeah, maybe I do belong here.

Over the break I had an AWESOME opportunity to complete my 30 hours of community service (requirement for graduation) with KASAP (Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs) on a legislative position paper that focused on the use of protective orders by victims of Dating Violence. I was blown away first by the lack of language on the subject in Kentucky (especially because I know of some people who experienced this in college) but also by the way in which those issues can be advocated for. I think I found a doorway to a calling. Maybe not this particular area but I definitely saw something that screamed "advocacy in education." I was especially excited about reviewing issues within Kentucky education when I saw that Governor Beshear highlighted an effort to evaluate education after he won the election (Cough cough... internship??? Maybe???). 

Overall I'm looking forward to a new semester. I'm a little bit older... (yikes, I turn 26 in April...) a little bit wiser... and a little less of a green 1L. As my favorite picture book by Bob Shea and Lane Smith states, "I got BIG PLANS"and "soon the entire WORLD will know of my BIG PLANS!"