By Thistle - 12/09/2009 00:10 - United States

Today, I filled out an application at WalMart after being unable to find a job in three months. I just graduated from law school. With honors. FML
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Glam_fml 0

That really sucks. Damn the economy! I hope you find something better soon.

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Sygonus 0

Yes, how DARE the OP expect a fair return on her investment in law school.

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yep_sucks 1

did you complete a pre-3rd year internship (basically guaranteeing you a job)? did you pass the bar? oh, no you didn't? then STFU and accept your walmart career.

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twiggly 0

Internship does not guarantee you a job, if you were told that, you were misinformed. I have friends in many fields of study. All graduated after taking internship successfully. About 60% of them are not working as a professional in their field of study. So thank you for being another asshole of the world to spew useless crap out upon everyone else.

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paulm_fml 0

While an internship does not guarantee a job, it does help build at least some experience and develop some connections. Ultimately this should be common sense to anyone, if you don't take your own initiative to figure out where to go after you're done, half the time you will not end up anywhere. In this case she still has the option of doing part-time work and studying to pass the bar, trying to intern some place without pay to work on building connections, etc, etc. This is just another example of new grads having a false sense of entitlement. Rather than blaming the economy, perhaps they should be blaming the school that gave them a false sense of security without enough emphasis on thinking for themselves and taking their own initiative early on. This is a common situation irregardless of the economic situation, but I guess it helps to blame something.

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fmyduck 0

#28: thanks for making it painfully obvious that you don't know zilch about law school. Completing a "pre-3rd year internship" basically guarantees you a job? Uh, no. But seriously OP, if you graduated from law school with honors and you cannot find ANY legal job after 3 months, either (1) you went to an awful school, (2) you rub people the wrong way in interviews, (3) you live in an area with no jobs. In which case its half YDI and half FML.

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ovanova 0

If you pass the bar exam then it doesn't matter all that much if you went to a crappy school.

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stopwhining 1

If you pass the bar, you still need someone to hire you. Law firms do pay attention to the school you went to. So passing the bar doesn't make up for going to a crappy law school.

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bugmenotmofo 34

#31: Erase your #3. There is no such thing as an area with no jobs for lawyers. People always argue, fight and sue, so there's always plenty of jobs for lawyers. #22: I think the problem with pro bono cases is, that even for them, you have to be office based lawyer. Don't know how strict that is in the U.S. and what this implies...

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awkward_sarcasm 0

Welcome to our economy.

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myrddraal_fml 0

FYL :( Im so happy I don't live in the USA lol. Recessions suck

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celticwoman04 0

Bullshit. Taxes went up, my photo studio layed me off. Muncie was a major business center when the Ball Brothers were here. Now there is nothing left but scraps of old factories and a majorly overflowing unemployment office.

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celticwoman04 0

That sucks. My husband graduated with a 3.98 out of 4 and a Master's Degree in Chemistry. He just applied for a job at a frozen food packing plant.

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machete_fml 0

"**** our economy, that sucks" breaking news, lazy bitch! you need to get active BEFORE graduating. appear on the radar. big companies always look for people, and if they don't try to rearrange their HR in the times of so-called crisis, they are plain stupid. trust me, I work in HR.

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banihex 0

YDI for not having a job for three months. You graduate with "Honors" but don't have the brains or self respect to get any kind job, for three months? I just recently moved out of the USA, but still read the classifieds online and on Craigslist. THERE ARE JOBS, you just have to not be lazy.

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rightsaidred 3

Yeah, there are jobs. And there are at least ten times more jobseekers than there are available jobs. The last job I applied for had over a hundred applicants.

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