Mall Store Staff Quits, Leaves Abusive Boss Very Public Note

[Manifestor_of_Light]

164. Thank you!!

I never had mentors like they talked about all the time in the 80s.
You were supposed to find an older person to give you advice and find you job leads. Nobody in court reporting would help anyone if you were not their buddy.

I couldn't find any paralegal jobs after I graduated. Couldn't get jobs out of any of the guys I went to law school with and I was cordial to everyone, except for the occasional short deposition. I had graduated from a rich kids' private undergrad college and my law school was an expensive private school. Didn't seem to help.

I had one guy tell me he just couldn't give me a job, despite being a partner in a law firm, which meant that he was taking home at least a million dollars a year in his share of the profits, besides his regular salary.


I should have been helping to train trial lawyers. People go to college and grad school and are wasted and thrown away in this society.

Took the bar exam a couple of times. Third time, I went to the first morning session feeling bad. Left after the first three hours and went to bed sick. I think it was bronchitis. I never had exam panic and never found out what my problem was, in spite of spending a few thousand on the bar cram courses.

Fortunately I paid for my courses with my court reporting job and don't have any student debt --this was in the early 1980s before everyone was drowning in student debt.

However after spending about $25-30,000 in 1980 dollars on tuition, books and such, I wonder if I got anything out of it. I went because my father was a lawyer and my role model. It was a good broad education, unlike most grad schools, but it certainly didn't get me any jobs.