grrrr

[raven]

You know what tempts me, above all other things, to just give in and go for being a corporate lawyer? It's not the money, although I must say, I do fantasise these days of that arcane concept of receiving wages for services rendered. No, the money is not the thing. It is the ease of it. The way I could just sit down for a day and do a stack of applications and answer truthfully and in heartfelt fashion about what a wonderful corporate lawyer I would make, and I could send them off and if I got a job I'd get it and if I didn't I wouldn't and it would be, at least, simple. Instead, I realise more and more that there are no public lawyers, there are no criminal lawyers, those that there are don't want to employ a twenty-two-year-old non-law graduate and those that might have been persuaded into it have been credit crunched.

This rant brought to you by the nagging fear I will never get a training contract ever, which was brought to me by the realisation that I have been applying for these things for two years now, which has been a contributory factor to general crankiness. Other reasons: I have lurgy and rampant claustrophobia, also my cousin had a baby two days ago, a baby with lots of hair and very large dark eyes and the sweetest little face, and because I am a sodding NRI halfway through a sodding law degree, I will probably not meet him until he graduates from college. They haven't named him yet, and probably they will have his janampatri done and name him something incredibly old-fashioned and formal, but I imagine that for several years yet he will answer to "Baaaaaaby!"

(Someone asked me recently if Indian babies look like Winston Churchill. I can confirm that no, no they don't.)

Grrr. I want a job and some free time and maybe some plane tickets. Universe, get on that, please.

Comments

[mi-guida.livejournal.com]

I can't offer advice on how to get into public law whilst avoiding corporate firms, because I couldn't work out how to do it. What I will say is that (and it pains me to say it but it's true) it is only tow years and then there are public law jobs to be found once you're qualified.

I know it's not helpful, particularly, but feel free to email or whatever and talk it through with me any time you want...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

If it were just public law, yeah, absolutely, but I'm mostly worried now about criminal law. Because I'm pretty sure this isn't something I can get into if I don't touch it during my training contract, but nowhere offers it! It's getting really frustrating.