A chapter in our life has come to an end. Emily, Josh and Artemis have left China.
Josh is in Vietnam, seeing the sights and getting some long deserved rest and relaxation.
Artemis and I are in Philadelphia. Josh will catch up with us next week.
And I am pounding the pavement, looking for a job.
Since I hope to find a job as a lawyer I started the job search by attempting to re-activate my Pennsylvania Attorney License. I called the Supreme Court and a woman in Harrisburg told me, “No problem. You just need to take 36 hours of Continuing Legal Education.”
The yearly requirement is 12 hours, but I’ve been gone for two-and-a-half years.
So for the past week I have been doing little else but attending continuing education lectures for lawyers. Seeing so many of them back-to-back, I have become an expert on CLE. I have learned the courses taught by trial lawyers are better than courses taught by corporate lawyers. Plaintiffs attorneys are the best. Their livelihoods depend on keeping juries entertained. They do the same song and dance for their colleagues.
This expensive requirement has had one nice advantage for me: it provides endless opportunities to network. At a panel discussion on Women in the Profession I met a law school classmate who introduced me to a legal recruiter.
Hopefully this job search won’t last too long.