One-year Fellowships?
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 12:10 pm
Hi all,
I hear/see a lot of generalized talk about one-year, post-graduate "fellowship" positions of various kinds, but I don't really have much of an idea how to actually search for those positions or what they might entail. The concept appeals to me because I am coming off of a clerkship (ending in August) and am expecting a "gap year" during which I want to continue living in City X (not NYC or DC, but a relatively big city) before moving to Unknown City Y with my spouse for my spouse's career. I plan to talk with my contacts in City X (which is where I'm living/clerking now, so those contacts include the judge), of course, but I was wondering if there are any good online resources I could check out that tend to list these types of positions.
But, more fundamentally, would anyone mind enlightening me on WTF I'm even talking about? I profess to not really know. I do realize I'm sort of coming at this backwards in some sense: I would imagine it's more common to think, "Hey, I want to work in [particular area of law]. I'll look for positions that allow me to do that. Oh, fellowships do? Great; I'll apply to those." But, for me, like I said, it's more of a pragmatic consideration than anything else. I'd prefer not to take an ostensibly long-term position under false pretenses, knowing I'll probably have to move in a year, so a position designed to end when I have to move would be perfect. I could maybe try to clerk again, but it's pretty late in the game to find a 2016-17 position and this is already my second clerkship. So all of that leads me to wonder about these one-year fellowship positions about which I have almost no information other than that they exist and are apparently not career killers.
Do my questions make sense? Can anyone point me in a useful direction or set my mind right on how to think about these positions? Thanks in advance!
I hear/see a lot of generalized talk about one-year, post-graduate "fellowship" positions of various kinds, but I don't really have much of an idea how to actually search for those positions or what they might entail. The concept appeals to me because I am coming off of a clerkship (ending in August) and am expecting a "gap year" during which I want to continue living in City X (not NYC or DC, but a relatively big city) before moving to Unknown City Y with my spouse for my spouse's career. I plan to talk with my contacts in City X (which is where I'm living/clerking now, so those contacts include the judge), of course, but I was wondering if there are any good online resources I could check out that tend to list these types of positions.
But, more fundamentally, would anyone mind enlightening me on WTF I'm even talking about? I profess to not really know. I do realize I'm sort of coming at this backwards in some sense: I would imagine it's more common to think, "Hey, I want to work in [particular area of law]. I'll look for positions that allow me to do that. Oh, fellowships do? Great; I'll apply to those." But, for me, like I said, it's more of a pragmatic consideration than anything else. I'd prefer not to take an ostensibly long-term position under false pretenses, knowing I'll probably have to move in a year, so a position designed to end when I have to move would be perfect. I could maybe try to clerk again, but it's pretty late in the game to find a 2016-17 position and this is already my second clerkship. So all of that leads me to wonder about these one-year fellowship positions about which I have almost no information other than that they exist and are apparently not career killers.
Do my questions make sense? Can anyone point me in a useful direction or set my mind right on how to think about these positions? Thanks in advance!