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Ok so I may not have a job just yet, but according to my network of sources I may soon be getting loads of interviews. That sounds like a good start at least. What it appears is going on is that several employers are intrigued by my, shall we say, interesting resume. More than one potential employer has asked people that know me whether or not I am actually a lawyer and it seems that they would like to meet this so called lawyer who is applying for jobs as a waitress or, even funnier, a hotel cleaner. Well, if it gets me in the door then I guess that’s good enough for me. I will just have to win them over with my stunning smile and charming personality, if only I actually had a stunning smile or a charming personality. Maybe I can fake it.
What is even more amusing, however, is that I am apparently not the first lawyer to run screaming away from the practice of law and end up on the other side of the world desperately trying to hide from any and all questions about tortuous interference with business relationships or res ipsa loquitor. Back in October, I shared a room in the hostel with a girl from Taiwan who had left her legal practice as a litigator to come to New Zealand and work in a factory. She said that at first it was hard going from having been respected at work to being the low man on the totem pole, so to speak, but that after the initial shock had worn off, she found that she enjoyed working in a stress free environment even if it came at a considerably lower pay rate.
As I sat in the meeting with the employment agency this morning trying to once again explain why I had not actually become a full time practicing lawyer after law school, she told me that I wasn’t even their only client who had done the same thing. It turns out that several offices in the Queenstown area like to hire former lawyers because of the alleged attention to detail and ability to “think outside the box.” They must not have been to the law school that I went to because if anything we were taught to only think inside the box and to follow precedent like it was the law. Well technically it is the law but you know what I mean. I digress. Hopefully this love of former lawyers will extend to me and I can get a nice cushy desk job at a reasonable rate of pay. Just about anything will pay better than being a waitress or a cleaner. Its not exactly like working for the skydive or bungy jump companies but it’d do for now and as long as it allows me to live in this absolutely gorgeous locale and occasionally go out and play in it, its perfect.