This post is a follow up to the classic post What is... a PROFESSIONAL from my blogging counterpart Fletch. If you're new to the blog, check it out. its a good'un.
Anyway, so I was out last night for a friend's birthday. As is common here, upon meeting a new people, I was asked: What do you do? Now, I can be quite loquacious at parties like this, but I really have no idea how to answer that question in a sufficiently succinct style appropriate for cocktail conversation. My answer was usually "well, that is an interesting question..." and then try to change the subject.
Really, how many people want to hear this when you first meet me: "I graduated from law school in May, and I actually just found out I passed the bar this weekend. But, I've been having some problems finding work as a lawyer. To pay my bills I'm working the door at a bar, I'm doing some work as a personal assistant a few hour a week too. Oh, and I also have a blog where my friends are kind enough to click the ads whenever they can... I do actually, sort of do legal work though, I intern two days a week down at the court house. But that's unpaid. And I suppose if other opportunities to earn some money I'd like to take those jobs too. So, ya, I'm a lawyer I guess."
I like this post. In the past, when I was asked about college, and what I was majoring in, and what I was working as, it was this big long convoluted story about how I majored in one thing but I decided I didn't want to do it so I focused on something else for my last year, but I kept the major so I could graduate early, and I spent the last year studying something else on the side, I have had a retail job the entire time, which I still work at while doing jobs intermittently in the field that I actually want to pursue, but most of those pay very little, if at all.
ReplyDeleteIt's why I hated going to family events. I hated having to explain that six times through.
I actually had a really great moment last night, while I was out at a bar watching football. I had started chatting with a bunch of the guys sitting around me, and one of them asked me what I did, and I hesitated for a moment, before simply saying: "I'm a sub dresser at an off-Broadway show."
IT. FELT. SO. GOOD.