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Take the bar exam. Apply for very unglamorous public law jobs: Public defender, Assistant DA, child support enforcement, government agency work. Consider doing this in an underserved state or a particularly underserved rural or urban area. In these very needy areas, beggars can't be choosers. You'll get hired.
If you don't want to sit for the bar, you've still got a good background. Look at technical writing, or even claims adjusting. Lots of people go to law school but don't have traditional litigation jobs.
You should take a bar exam and start over as a lawyer. Or find a job as a paralegal. With your writing skills and legal background it seems like a natural fit. You could write summary judgment motions all day long.
And I'd ignore the advice that it's too late to start a law career because it's just silly. You could look for legal aid jobs advocating for the mentally ill. Or start as a municipal prosecutor, or a small DA's office.
34 is not old. You have a law degree and an undergraduate degree. You are not a failure.
I would take a job in the field of law (if you like it) and start studying for the bar.
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Like I said pages ago, the OP isn't really looking for any meaningful advice, but just a way to ramble on and bemoan about how horrible his situation is.
One thing I dislike is when forum members take the time and effort to give meaningful advice, and then people like the OP just casually disregard it because their intent is not to seek advice to help them, but just a way to listen to themselves and stroke their egos.
Expect another 10 pages of meaningless rambling.
Yep, I spotted it the first few lines of the first post, I spent much time being like that myself so its familiar.
Its a well intentioned error to get sucked into giving advice to someone who can't hear it.
Its perfectly obvious what someone with a law education should do, even a 6 yr old can see that.
As my dad liked to say "get off your cross, we need the wood".
I've listened to some of the advice here and I'm already putting it to work for me; I have two promising avenues right now, and more to hopefully come. It's also the act of just communicating that's helpful, too.
I enjoy when people don't believe my life, it makes me feel awesome for having made it this far. Not that things are going too well right now, but this is just a temporary setback.
Also, I'm not really sure I should work for someone who's been an unrepentant d*ck to me, been there, done that.
My, my, a bit grumpy today. This is good as you are now showing your true colors. It's no F-ing wonder you can't get a job.
I enjoy when people don't believe my life, it makes me feel awesome for having made it this far. Not that things are going too well right now, but this is just a temporary setback.
Also, I'm not really sure I should work for someone who's been an unrepentant d*ck to me, been there, done that.
Does that mean you're not taking up my offer for a job??
So keep whining cryng and sitting here unemployed or grow up and hustle.
I don't see the OP thinks he is entitled to anything. Just in a state of despair over his/her situation.
I will say, many people need to wise up and realize that not everyone can have a prestigious or lucrative career. Lots of people work ordinary jobs and learn to be happy that way, and live on less. They may not drive a BMW but they have health insurance, a 401K and a living wage.
It's not unusual to start a law career at 34. Unless I missed it, he hasn't said that he's been unable to pass a bar exam.
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