Give Me a Job. Please.

With a mere five months to graduation, I am taking this opportunity to freak out.  It's amazing--I had so much school left, I didn't have to worry about anything but passing my classes and getting through my internships.  But now, suddenly, I have all sorts of things to think about, like what bar review class to take, whether or not to walk at graduation, what graduation announcements to send, how to fill out my bar exam application, updating my resume, and applying and interviewing for various jobs.  (Also, I am interested in planning a wedding, which will hopefully take place this September.)  Where did the time go? 

Everyone knows someone and wants a copy of my resume to give to a friend/family member/co-worker/in-law or someone entirely unrelated to them who knows someone who knows someone who is a lawyer in a big firm in ___ (insert name of city/town/county here) and can probably get me a job.  Unfortunately, none of those people have been able to really make it happen.  I met one such person yesterday and, although I have had an encounter like this many times before that has not come to fruition, I am taking the bait and using this opportunity to beef up my resume and get it out before I do something that makes my standing go down somehow.

I like to think of this blog as an exercise in creative writing.  I like to think of it as creative nonfiction because, let's face it, at times I am a little bit dramatic and sometimes exaggerate details to fit my particular circumstances.  If this is an exercise in creative nonfiction, resume writing is a genre unto itself but, if I had to label it, I would have to say its non-creative fiction.  I want to write, "I have no real skills, am not very smart, and have no work experience because your field requires me to be in school until I'm damn near geriatric, so please lower your standards," but that's kind of long and doesn't fit neatly in my bullet points.  "I'll try really hard to not screw up," also seems somewhat inappropriate.  It's too bad, because really it seems like that's all I can say for myself.  Still, there must have been tons of lawyers who graduated at the same place I am or much, much, much lower and still made it work.  I'm holding out hope.

If you have any resume suggestions, please send them my way.  If you can find creative ways to discuss how "motivated" or "driven" or "detail oriented" I am, please feel free to provide short phrases that will fit neatly into bulleted points.  Obviously, it doesn't need to be particularly creative.  It just needs to make the employers look more than once at my resume.  Too bad I can't go all Elle Woods and make it scented and pink.  That might get me noticed.

Hire me.  Someone.  I really will try very hard not to screw up.