Tomorrow is the first day of my summer internship. Technically, I’ve been looking for a summer job for over nine months. Of course that’s not all I’ve been doing, there’s always schoolwork, class, exams, the journal, and fun stuff like tortfeasor shirts. I’m really amazed at how difficult it has been though. Countless potential employers have failed to send so much as a “thanks but no thanks” email, and countless interviews have seemed to have gone really well, only to ultimately result in unemployment. Actually, I could count all these things, since I have a pretty detailed record of everything that I’ve sent, everywhere I’ve interviewed, and every official rejection - but who's keeping track?

I’m happy to announce that I’ve actually found something fairly spectacular to do this summer. I won’t be getting paid, but I’ll be getting great experience doing the type of things I’d want to do as a lawyer. Perhaps the latecomer will be entertained. The normal night-before-the-first-day nervousness is minimal this time.

This concludes my job search for legal related work. I might still try to make some money somewhere this summer, but if so it’ll be doing something mindless.

This is the state of the job market for law students:
paid legal related summer job = golden
unpaid legal related job = pretty good
paid non-legal job = at least your getting paid
paid illegal job = off the hizzle
nothin’ = not terribly unusual