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December 15, 2002
Logical Suggestion
Logical Suggestion
As some of you know, I've been looking for a steady job for a while now. I love what I do, but what little pay there is isn't dependable. Recently got a letter from the Arkansas agency that oversees attorneys like me that said they are out of money, and no one would get paid for the remainder of their fiscal year (which ends June 30th, 2003) unless they were able to find alternative funding. The county in which I work in Oklahoma had similar problems last year, which meant there were several months in which I didn't get paid anything. And, they've already had salary cuts for all their court personnel beginning in January. Next year's not looking too good.For a variety of reasons, the main one being that since one of the state's two law schools is located here & so the job market's over-saturated, I haven't been able to find a full-time job. (Another huge problem is that there's a perception that those who practice children's law don't practice "real law," which is absurd, but still very much a factor.) At any rate, Mike has made a eminently practical suggestion. I've been thinking it over for the last couple of days, and haven't been able to find any major flaws.
He thinks I should attend the local community college and get an associate's degree in computer networking, including some business management and maybe a few programming classes. He says with my past work experience in managing businesses, my law degree, and the computer degree, several of the local corporations would be very interested in hiring me as either a legal/computer systems liason, or as a systems manager. We could then both be making fat bank until he gets ready to semi-retire, at which time he & I could start our own business, troubleshooting and/or designing networking systems for businesses.
Totally logical. My problem? After 7 yrs. of school to get my undergrad & law degree, I'm not anxious to go back, to put it mildly. And there's the cost involved. But I can't find a major flaw with his suggestion. I've checked, and I shouldn't have much problem fitting my classes in around my current work.
It's sometimes annoying how frequently he's right. *sigh* The price I pay for being married to an extremely smart guy. So why do I sorta feel like I'm being Borged? Must. Resist. Assimilation.
Posted by Rita at December 15, 2002 09:29 AM