I feel like my career is over before it even began Forum

[BmoreOrLess]

I'm sorry you went to GTTTown

User outed for using anon to be an asshole. Don't do that.

I hope you enjoy your first finals of law school

Seriously, you better hope you don't wind up as one of these thirty people.

A less terse way to make the same point: OP, what is your office of career services doing to help you? If the answer is "nothing," then you should be outing your school because they've failed you.

I might be an asshole, but that's irrelevant to the fact that OP's school should either help him or be shamed.

By the way, I didn't remember my password, hit reply, my password was autofilled, so I said sweet and clicked through and posted. Didn't realize it was still anonymous. I basically never post on here.

Rarely post, but jumped at the opportunity to rip Gtown and be an asshole... lolz

He clearly just meant to say that career services at GULC is TTT. Definitely not trying to make himself feel better about his impending median grades.

[Anonymous User]

I know it feels like the end of the world, OP, but it really isn't.

Keep your grades up or improve your grades, and you'll have a decent shot at 3L oci. If you still don't succeed, there's always sticking around for a tax LLM.

And, although it's an *incredible* long shot, SA positions open up in the spring. Last year I had two interviews in the spring semester; and one person from my school switched from basically shit law to regional big law in March. So don't lose hope.

How would you find these spring SA positions?

Symplicity. Also reach out to firms you had callbacks with if you improve your grades.

A girl from my school got a callback at Oppenheimer in the spring (not what you're looking for, but if anyone else is interested). I think she cold reached out to the Head of Legal.

I'm a 2l that struck out at oci. T14, slightly below median.
Wondering about Oppenheimer. I want to go in to banking, and this seems ideal.
Did they come to your campus? Was that on symplicity?

Thanks for any info.

[zot1]

Unless you do something that is going to keep you from getting barred, your career as a lawyer is far from over. Pick yourself up.

I know who ended up getting an in-house counsel gig right after graduation. I know people who went in-house from small, rarely known firms as well. In the end what will matter is the kind of connections you make.

Go to your summer firm and do the best job you can. Getting that offer will make things easier. With or without offer, try to get in with other firms. If that doesn't work but you have the offer, take it, go to lots of networking events, and then make a move when you can. If that doesn't work and you don't have an offer, keep hustling.

Good luck!

[lavarman84]

OP, stop the melodrama. You're having a pity party because you didn't get the exact job you want. That's life. Work hard and maybe an opportunity opens up in the future. Either ways, you have a job and it doesn't sound like a terrible one. Be thankful you have an opportunity, make the most of it, and give it a real chance. You might like it. Your idea of dream job right now isn't based on actual practice. It could very well change. Relax. Nut up. And work hard if you want a better outcome. Letting your grades go to shit is a great way to keep yourself from having any chance of getting the biglaw job you desire.

But frankly, you might end up much happier in a midlaw job. There are worse things in the world. As far as I know (and I could be wrong), you haven't worked in midlaw or biglaw. You don't know what either is like. A lot of people on this board hate biglaw. Life goes on.

We all have dream jobs and we rarely get them. Part of living life is making the best of what you are given. It's not always exactly what you want but the fact that you have a job and a job that doesn't seem objectively terrible puts you in a much better situation than a number of other people out there.

A less terse way to make the same point: OP, what is your office of career services doing to help you? If the answer is "nothing," then you should be outing your school because they've failed you.

I might be an asshole, but that's irrelevant to the fact that OP's school should either help him or be shamed.

By the way, I didn't remember my password, hit reply, my password was autofilled, so I said sweet and clicked through and posted. Didn't realize it was still anonymous. I basically never post on here.

OP's career services didn't fail him/her. There isn't anything they should be doing to help OP. OP had a shot at getting the job he/she desired. It didn't work out. But OP still got a job. A job that isn't terrible. What should they be doing to "help" OP? Especially when you consider there are likely people in OP's class that don't have jobs right now and actually need the help.