3L "Gap Fillers" Open Forum
3Ls: Time for an open forum on how you plan to "gap fill" your time between the bar exam and when you begin work.
Today's CDO presentation conveyed two interesting points on topic:
(1) If you're given the chance of a one year deferral, you should take it.
Reasoning behind this suggestion was (1) firms are hurting and you can help them; (2) they wouldn't have offered it to you if they didn't want you to take it; and, (3) money in hand is better than starting and getting laid off before next fall anyway (universally considered the WORST case scenario).
HOWEVER, and this likely can go without saying, it'd be career suicide to do nothing during your year off. Playing video games will likely mean you will not be around very long if they even let you back.
(2) Even those who plan to start Dec/Jan/MARCH?! should do something to improve their resume in the meantime.
But what can you do? CDO is starting a new section on b-line to house short-term placements for this period. Also, maybe sign up for a semester at the community college?
Any thoughts on the matter(s)?
Today's CDO presentation conveyed two interesting points on topic:
(1) If you're given the chance of a one year deferral, you should take it.
Reasoning behind this suggestion was (1) firms are hurting and you can help them; (2) they wouldn't have offered it to you if they didn't want you to take it; and, (3) money in hand is better than starting and getting laid off before next fall anyway (universally considered the WORST case scenario).
HOWEVER, and this likely can go without saying, it'd be career suicide to do nothing during your year off. Playing video games will likely mean you will not be around very long if they even let you back.
(2) Even those who plan to start Dec/Jan/MARCH?! should do something to improve their resume in the meantime.
But what can you do? CDO is starting a new section on b-line to house short-term placements for this period. Also, maybe sign up for a semester at the community college?
Any thoughts on the matter(s)?
Labels: OCIP/Employment
posted by tj at 11:23 PM
18 Comments:
What about those with normal start dates? When do you finally believe that your start date will not get pushed back and plunk down some cash for a trip?
ARGH WE GONNA HAVE A SOMALI PIRATE ARGHTICLE?
Excellent question 8:13. I know that feeling.
Competing factors:
On the one hand, you want to take advantage of the the time off (what could be your last great chance until retirement - assuming all goes as planned).
Yet you'd feel rather silly spending 10k on a trip and then finding out your start date was pushed back anyway (or worse).
What would you do then?
Also, I'd like to say there's nothing more frustrating than hearing people from your firm strongly endorse the latter option without any acknowledgment of the very real possibility we may not have jobs waiting for us to pay those credit card statements when they come due.
Do you all agree that it is best to take a deferral option? I am having a hard time deciding. My concern is that, if the firm wants to cut some of the incoming associates, it might be more inclined to keep those who started working rather than those who took the deferral. Then again, if it decides to do cuts in say April or May 2010, I guess those that started working would be in bad shape.
I would definitely take the deferral, because I am a sucker for anything that is "free". Free money? I'm there. Free food? I'm fat. Free booze? Liver disease.
Free Tibet?
Speaking of free stuff, anyone else grab one of those hoe-ramming shirts today? Props to Boalt for making fun of itself.
If you have a year, use it start work on another degree: MBA. LLM, as you prefer and see fit.
Northwestern to let law school grads with deferred jobs postpone loan payments
http://tinyurl.com/dbe9dp
1:43 - I don't think Boalt has any such sense of humor... seemed more like someone else making fun of Boalt. Hmmm, maybe it was the Notorious B.O.A.L.T.
That would explain the rhymes I guess, wasn't really that fresh of a groove though.
What rhymes? I didn't pick one up, but I don't remember there being a rhyme.
Also, didn't that guy fail out?
it's not failing out if you purposefully turn in nonsense for your finals. that's more like dropping out (and burning bridges if you ask me, but still not failing).
On those stats reported to LSAC will he be reported as a drop out or fail out I wonder.
I doubt they failed him out. Even if he failed his courses. "Failed out" means you actually are no longer allowed to attend classes.
So then we're all agreed that hoe-ramming is a verb?
was there any doubt?
My friends and colleagues at firms don't think that deferral is the best idea at all. Who do you think will get all the work while you are taking the year off? The people who showed up. And who will keep getting that work from the partners with whom they have retained connections when you come back? The same. And who do you think has been getting laid off as first years? People without those connections.
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