UW held a financial aid seminar for graduating law students today, and boy was it depressing. As if it wasn't bad enough that student loan debt is now greater than credit card debt, the legal job market still hasn't really picked back up. If I'm lucky I'll find a public interest job and get myself on the ten-year loan forgiveness track.
Today I interviewed for a job. A fellow student, whom I know for a fact is ranked third in our graduating class, was also interviewing. The fact that he doesn't yet have a job is telling of just how bad the situation has become. It makes me wonder how many young people across America are in the same situation. Convinced that grad school was a great idea, that we had found our "calling," we now face little more than a mountain of debt. And the view from that mountain is terrible.
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Off we go, into the wild blue yonder...
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Good luck... when do you find out whether they're offering you the job? :-)
ReplyDeleteCallback interviews are in late May, so we'll see what happens!
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