Seattle

I'm back in Seattle for the summer to be with my man. I left a job where I was well liked and good at what I did to come up here in the hopes of finding something in the ways of employment or volunteering. I found out the day before I left I didn't get the judicial externship I had gone out for due to extenuating circumstances - the judge would have hired me, but because one of her colleagues had switched dockets and couldn't accomodate an extern but had already promised an extern a position, my judge had to take that extern instead of me.

I've been here a week and had zero luck. I've applied to many different places and tapped out many of my contacts. Its looking like a summer full of lunches with networking leads that don't actually go anywhere, but might be good for the future. It is always good to meet people, but it doesn't do much to help the situation now. I do have a potential volunteering gig with Lambda Legal lined up if nothing else pans out, and for that I am very grateful. But that gig is only if nothing else pans out, because it wouldn't be very much work - certainly not enough to fill a whole summer's worth. I worked my tail off this past year to make sure that I wouldn't end up in this situation again, to have the kind of resume I could proudly push across a desk, and yet here I am, jobless, with not even a full-time volunteer position, and without any leads. And housewifery just isn't for me - I already feel as though I have cabin fever, and there's a sink full of dishes I'm dreading doing. I really don't want to take summer school again and I really don't want to be a research assistant again, but it looks as though I might not have a choice.