tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436231778998654522.post5000894181698199953..comments2024-01-06T00:49:44.046-08:00Comments on The Poor Paralegal: Confessions of a Car SalesmanThe Poor Paralegalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11920856923964614227noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436231778998654522.post-77536437616225152372022-06-27T07:37:50.370-07:002022-06-27T07:37:50.370-07:00Grreat blog you haveGrreat blog you haveJackhttps://www.jackmckay.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436231778998654522.post-86096855411953405452011-05-01T15:09:44.293-07:002011-05-01T15:09:44.293-07:00i haven't had a chance to post a comment on yo...i haven't had a chance to post a comment on your blog yet but have read a few posts. I saw where you posted on BIDER about the teacher wanting to go paralegal. I'm actually thinking the reverse. August last year I got a paralegal position with a big firm here and was thrilled well shocked actually because I have no paralegal experience whatsoever. They wanted someone they could train, so they said. Flash forward 6 mos and I got laid off. Luckily I got anothe job as a file clerk/ legal secretary at another firm but I make significantly less. And its kind of like a temp-to-hire sort of thing. I'm paid through the temp agency for 12-13 weeks for what would be my probationary period, then after that I would be hired on fully with benefits. Tomorrow would start my 11th week. There is a girl that works there that started a few weeks before me and I couldn't hear all of the conversation but she had been in a meeting with the Office Manager and was telling one of the other girls about it. From what I could gather she was still going to be going through the temp agency and hadn't been hired on fully yet. Before I was at the firm that laid me off, I was at another firm under the same temp to hire and was there for like 6 months before they decided not to hire me on. I am starting to get the feeling that at this firm it's going to be the same way, or I am going to be like a long time temp or something (with no health insurance) <br /><br />After working in 3 different firms within the last year, I'm not sure if law is really where I should be or where I am suppose to be rather. I keep coming back to teaching but because I don't have a background in teaching and my degree is a liberal arts degree I'd have to go back to school. I hate having to go back to school and take out loans again. I don't have much compared to a lot of my friends but I really don't want to have to add to it you know. I'm very thankful to have a job but at the same time I'm def not happy where I am at. And I def not make enough to even be able to put something back so I can move out of my parents house. <br /><br />Sorry for the long rambling post. I just started typing and with having so much on my mind it just started coming out, lol. Maybe I should start a blog. One thing is for sure though, def need a new career path.Amynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436231778998654522.post-55489133993722015262011-04-25T18:56:44.810-07:002011-04-25T18:56:44.810-07:00I am finishing my BA in International Business Adm...I am finishing my BA in International Business Administration. I had high hope that in less than two years I would graduate and then apply to law school. However, after reading a New York Times article entitled, "Is Law school a losing Game" and reading Shilling Me Softly, I am rethinking my long-range plans.<br /><br />I was a paralegal for more than 5 years and I absolutely loved it. I am now a manager for a poorly run retail company. I am grateful to have a job but I am far from happy. Poor Paralegal keep your head up and continue to push forward with interviews. At least you are getting interviews. I've only had one interview in 6 months.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436231778998654522.post-47788495371303811832011-04-25T11:48:36.657-07:002011-04-25T11:48:36.657-07:00What we really need is to get this type of informa...What we really need is to get this type of information out. What information? We are not the anchors of our class. We came from typical TT and TTT programs. We passed the bar exam. But, despite our diligent effort we can't find work or enough work in the legal field. And, we are not atypical. Now, we are stuck in jobs or doing 2d jobs just to make ends meet if that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436231778998654522.post-15990699209415178522011-04-24T03:11:22.007-07:002011-04-24T03:11:22.007-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436231778998654522.post-27004865826679611502011-04-24T01:59:18.222-07:002011-04-24T01:59:18.222-07:00Which top 20 law school did you go to? how long ha...Which top 20 law school did you go to? how long has it been since you graduated and what are you doing now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436231778998654522.post-76451087798018177632011-04-23T20:40:31.606-07:002011-04-23T20:40:31.606-07:00I too worked in car sales after graduating from my...I too worked in car sales after graduating from my top twenty law school. I did not like it, you wait around all day for some customer to come in. I dreaded the hours just waiting, staring, at the lot. Then you have to fight the other salespeople if someone comes on the lot. One of the other salespeople, their top salesperson, was a deranged sociopath that had started work their while on work release from a prison. He would push other salespeople out of the way to get to a potential customer. I can really relate to JDpainterguy being around crass, uneducated people working in car sales. My last manager was a real piece of work. He was an egomaniac, and he was always doing annoying things like recording my phone calls, spying on me, screwing up my pay, complaining incessantly, being overall negative and telling me how great he was. I always enjoyed it when it was his day off or he was not at the dealership. The sociopath salesman called the manager the Lord of Doom. I never told him I had a law degree. Another salespeople was from the middle east, his desk was at the front of the building, so unless I stood outside I would not get a chance to talk to a customer coming on the lot. They all smoked like chimneys. I did not like going outside because the second hand smoke was overwhelming. They would fill outside ashtrays in one day with cigarette butts. I used to think if only, I made as much money as the people that worked their spent on cigarettes, I would be a wealthy man. They were two faced, they had to put on the facade of being human to customers, but when customers were not around they would return to there regular prick personality. Not everyone was a jerk. I would have stayed if it was not for that manager but I could not take his day to day bs. One day, I said to myself that I have never done anything so horrible in my life to another person, that I deserved to live like this and I quit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436231778998654522.post-30316943181357419142011-04-23T18:13:10.315-07:002011-04-23T18:13:10.315-07:00Another Outstanding Post!
And I would just add th...Another Outstanding Post!<br /><br />And I would just add the Time aspect. <br /><br />The valuable years wasted.<br /><br />In the old days, from what I understand, people would send their young sons away to become apprentices for 13 years or so, after which they would have a trade mastered and thereby have a way to earn a way to survive in the world.<br /><br />How does one recover and survive after all of those valuable years are wasted?<br /><br />With massive Debt to boot?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com