On the hunt for a real job!
5/16/10
One more week to go!!!!!!
I have loved every minute of my internship, but I’m ready for a real – paycheck – honest to goodness – job!
(well, it might just cut into my newfound knitting time, but hey…at least I’ll have money for yarn!!!)
Sooo busy with last minute homework, etc., but I’ll keep y’all posted!!
The ultimate work shoe - Earth shoe brand - which I cannot afford yet!
2/14/2010
Update: Finally, at long, long last —- I’m starting my INTERNSHIP!!!
Hallelujah! I start at the Public Defender’s office tomorrow – March 15, 2010.
I’m feeling (in no order of importance):
- Excited
- Nervous
- Sick to my stomach
- Happy
- Sad
- Sick to my stomach – ok, not sick, but butterflies, for sure!
I spent 3 HOURS yesterday, looking for some new shoes to wear to “work”. Since the Courthouse is only 1/2 mile from my house – another reason I’m excited – and I haven’t been working for the last couple of years, my shoe collection is in some serious disrepair. Now, why did it take so long, do you ask? All I needed were 2 pairs of decent looking work shoes – professional, low heel (so I can walk to work), in black and brown.
Well – I’m here to tell you, all they are selling nowadays are STRIPPER SHOES!!! Yes, there are a plethora of extremely high heel, strappy (open toes – NOT professional), uncomfortable to walk in shoes…but no professional shoes!!! ARGH! Even the old standby NORSTROM, who are famous for their shoe collection, had mainly stripper-style heels. ACK! I finally found a couple of OK pairs at Marshalls, which I bought in desperation. My god, who knew the shoes would be the hardest part of internship? I did find the ultimate work shoe online, at the EARTH SHOES website – see photo above- but since I haven’t worked in a couple of years, they are out of my price range. Hey Santa……….
Now, where is my good brown purse………………..
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I think I can, I think I can…………… Why oh why did I ever think I could do this?
This term: ALGEBRA (yes, I purchased a graphing calculator, the TI 83 plus, used on craigslist for $40 plus the gas to drive up to Santa Barbara and back), GROUP DYNAMICS (we learn how to work with people….gee, what a concept! Oh yes, I pay good money for this), and PROBATE/WILLS AND TRUSTS (we won’t go there at the moment, gulp)
The good news – this is my last full term of classes! Yes, ten more weeks of homework, then I get to intern at a super cool law office and meet exciting people and do glamorous things …or NOT. I just hope I can find a place who wants someone like me. Would you trust this woman?
