As I told Jason, apparently the reason I came to Boston was to pull together the materials for my DC Bar application. I didn't really have an interview it seems. Oh sure, I put my suit on and had the jitters and took the T down to the firm and met with one of the partners. But as soon as we sat down in her office she basically said that she saw my resume and thought it was interesting and wanted to meet with me, but who knows when they'll be hiring again, but it's good to have resumes on file.
Um...K.
So we chatted for 20 minutes or so and I told her about me and my experience and she told me about the firm and said she'd pass on my info to the health care people too.
Afterwards I stopped by the office of the attorney I interned for last year to say hi. When I explained the not-so-much interview to her she looked flabbergasted and said, "Are you kidding? They had you come up for that? That's bizarre." After a pause she said, "Well, maybe they're going to be hiring someone in the near future and wanted to get you in to talk to kind of feel you out." So that's a thought I suppose.
I'm trying not to feel too discouraged. I liked the firm a lot from their webiste, and everything the partner told me today just confirmed my initial impression. It sounds like they would be a great firm to work for. But that hopeful, maybe they'll hire me feeling is obviously gone since, you know, they're not hiring.
On the other hand, right now I have about 27 resumes out there and I've only heard back from 5 firms. I know one firm that I sent a resume to in DC is actually hiring because the HR person called me asking me to send them a transcript and writing sample too. And next week I'll get on the job boards again and send out some more. One young attorney I was talking to who did this process not too long ago told me that she set a goal for herself to get out 3 resumes a week. Since January 1 I haven't had a problem meeting that standard, so I just have to keep it up.
It's been great to be here this week though. I turned in my swearing in materials and am officially a barred attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts! I got my law school certification and my certificate of good standing from Mass to turn in with my DC Bar application, which is complete except for entering in the date that I was admitted to the Mass Bar. Tomorrow when I get home I'll print out the DC Bar app and Friday I'll head down to the DC Court of Appeals and hand it in, thus making me eligible for contract attorney work and maybe I'll be able to not drain my bank account in between every paycheck for once.
I also got to have lunch and dinner yesterday with 2 different friends. If anyone is wondering, the Sesame Shrimp Salad at John Harvard's is excellent. I'm also a big fan of their chicken pot pie.
I've also had a good time with Jason. It's almost like we're a normal couple, hanging out every day, running errands together, being all, well, normal. Like last night he had a choir practice so I went to dinner with Santa Cruz Jenn (who is Cambridge Jenn while doing a post-doc this year) and then met up with him afterwards. We came back to his place and watched a movie (Shaun of the Dead. Hilarious! I was only too grossed out when one of the cast was, um, disemboweled. Ewww! But they're zombies, so that's to be expected). Normal is so nice when it's just been a weekend here and a weekend there for the past 5 months.
4 comments:
That's really inexcusable. What is wrong with people that they don't think about these things? Why did she not think, "Hey, this person is looking for a job, I'd like to meet her in case something opens up, but I should be clear that we don't have any current openings so she doesn't get her hopes up."
Hmmmm. It's too bad you had to get nervous and excited and hopeful for that -- makes you wonder if there was a communication gap somewhere between the people who called you in and the woman who actually interviewed you. I remember going to a job interview once, and after I did my little spiel about myself, the woman on the other side of the desk stared at me and said, "Why are you here?" Anyway, chin up. I did find something (that I not only like better than I liked the company of that abortive interview, it pays better by about 20K a year) and so will you.
I've been through that, hope things work for you.
BTW, the format of your blog and the graphics come together very sharply.
gg, yeah as I thought about it more later I determined that they really should have known better.
Robin, maybe it was miscommunication. I hope so. I hope they're not just that dense and/or willing to toy with my emotions. Thanks for the encouragement. You know you all will be the first to hear if I ever do get a real job. Or a real interview for that matter.
Stephen, thanks for both the encouragement and the blog koudos. I freely admit that I used someone else's design (the credit is at the bottom of the sidebar). I thought it was pretty.
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