First day of school

Well, tomorrow is the first day of school for students across Wisconsin and the first day that I will not participate in. So thoughts of the last four years of my life have been running through my head the last few days. What makes this especially difficult is the fact that I have not started on my new career really and so I feel stuck in time.

So tomorrow instead I will be home searching for jobs, studying for the LSAT, and cleaning my turtles' tanks.

LSAT studying

Well, seeing as I only have 7 weeks left until I take the LSAT and I'm not happy with my score yet, I really need to focus more on studying. Fortunately this weekend I found an excellent forum with a great thread on how to get a higher score.

From that thread, I decided I needed to be taking more actual LSATs, so I ordered another book of 10 (I already have one book of ten plus quite a few of the most recent ones). Additionally, the Powerscore Bibles were repeatedly mentioned as really good so I purchased the one for logic reasoning and reading comprehension. (I'm already doing really well on logic games with 0-3 errors each time.)

I also subscribe to an LSAT blog that has recently been posting some really tough questions for more practice along with tips.

Coffee with J.D. Thorne

Today I had coffee with J.D. Thorne who knows my father-in-law. His experience is with employment law and working with companies to develop good human resources policies to avoid future problems. He has written two books: one dealing with employment law, Concise Guide to Successful Employment Practices, and one related to baseball, The 10 Commandments of Baseball, which looks really interesting.

He shared with me some of the current issues in employment law as well as helped me start networking with other attorneys. Currently I'm looking for a job as office support in a law firm to help me clarify my career plans and to save up some money for law school in a few years.

It was very gracious of him to meet with me and offer to help me connect with other attorneys and law firms.

J.D. Thorne's website where you can purchase Concise Guide to Successful Employment Practices

Publisher of The 10 Commandments of Baseball

Life is too short

Life is too short to spend it stuck in a career that doesn't make you happy.

So as the year progressed at my second school, I saw that teaching was not something I would stay in forever. I had hoped that a change in schools would show me that I just needed to find the right school but instead it showed me that kids are kids and parents are parents everywhere you go and neither has any interest in the learning what really needs to take place for success to happen. I found teaching to be more of a babysitting gig than an academic profession. And that only proved truer in my second school where kids choose their classes based on how much fun they are instead of what will actually help them in the future.

So here I am, starting this blog to share with you my journey to becoming an attorney. I remember as an adolescent joking about how I would be a good lawyer and thinking about how much fun it would be (but I also had a strong drive to teach and at the time 4-5 years sounded a lot better than 8 years of schooling). I don't regret the decisions I've made and I see them as a way to give me different perspectives and allow me to become an even better attorney some day.

My passions have always included reading and writing. I've written poetry ever since I can remember and in school have always chosen essays and other written assignments over other choices. I remember in my Earth Science class every test included 4 options (multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and essay) which we had to choose 2 of. And I think I was the only one who always chose the short answer and essay options. I have always felt confident with words and have always felt that I can talk my way around any answer.

I'm also the kind of person that never accepts anything at face value. I'm always digging further, trying to understand why something is as it is. It's a quality that my husband doesn't enjoy so much in me. He would rather me just accept what he says instead of making him think about the reasons behind his beliefs. But he is a very black and white kind of person.

So, anyway, this is where I am coming from. I'm not sure what all lays ahead of me but to be honest that is part of the exciting part. Life is too short to worry about the uncertainties in life. Instead look forward to all the exciting things to come while still enjoying the wonderful things in the present.