Dear Diary:
As much as I’ve been trying to stay optimistic, trying to keep my chin up and trying to believe that whenever a door is closed a window is opened (or, in NYC, broken into), etc. etc., I came to a very startling realization today while walking my dog and trying to keep him from eating crap off the street.
If my dog accidentally ate a penny in the balls of crud people leave in the street, he would have made more money today than I would have.
That really sucks.
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Well, 'fraid it's not going to get much better any time soon. That's why I've gone back to my old teaching job, which pays half what I was making back in 2007 working in China as an patenting paralegal, before I had the genius idea of going back to the UK to qualify as a lawyer here. Wait a year or so and this recession will be over, the companies might even have a little recruitment rush if they've over-done the lay-offs – they did after the last recession. Keep your chin up, it'll get better, not very soon, but it will.
if there are 30,000 lawyers in the usa out of a job, or 5 per cent, is it a good time to go to law school?
errrmmm . . . . only if you think things will have gotten better by the time you're out. You might also consider that big law might have over-shot on redundancies, and find it hard to get the people it let off back.