Two Weeks of Finding Sanity

This is the second week I have spent as an unemployed worker. The first week I spent forcing myself to focus on taking the Law School Admissions Test with hopes to enter law school next year. It was hard to focus but I pulled it off. Now I feel really good about the potential score I made on the test.

The most difficult part is the fact that I'd hoped to keep the job at the station I worked for through the beginning of law school. On top of this, since I was not able to apply for this school year (see article entitled U.S.A The Land of Dysfunctional Educational Institutions- the problem is my transcripts are on a bursar hold), I have to wait to apply until next school year. The ironic part is, this lay off would have made since IF I were entering law school this year... but life doesn't always make since. Now I am faced with having to look for a job that I may have to give up, IF I am accepted to the school of choice, a year later. At the same time there is an option of attending the school I want to attend on an evening school basis. But the goal is to get in law school and go full time. I want to focus on nothing but my education and a job there afterwards.

I have learned in the last two weeks; if you have hopes to go to law school you must not tell anyone! Okay, maybe that's a little extreme, but here's what has happened. With this sudden need to find a job, I have to network with friends in various companies- or should I say acquaintances. Fortunately for me, I do not like to talk much about my goals because I would rather be actively working towards them than talking about them. But in this one instance, a friend calls me up and asks me what I am doing, I tell them I am studying- which of course leads them to ask me what I am studying for. Now, I am not one to lie, so I tell them I am studying for the LSAT not thinking much of any problems with letting them know.

A month later I am laid off. I resort to contacting many of my friends and acquaintances for network opportunities that will help me find a job, one of which is the same person who found out I am studying for the LSAT. Yesterday I learned this person does not want me to take a job with her company and the only reason I can think she would not want me to is because it may mean quitting the job a year later. Now the main question about this; what difference does it make to her? I will explain in the next entry of Finding Sanity.