Day to Night

The hardest thing about working and going to law school at the same time is the hours I keep.  Four days a week i leave my house at 8am and don’t get back to my house until 11pm.  By Wednesday the zombie state sets in, and by Thursday I worry about getting into a car accident on the way home just from sheer exhaustion.

It doesn’t help that my job–even though I’ve cut my hours and I am part time now–has not lessened my workload at all.  In fact, not only am I doing a full-timer’s amount of work, but they keep giving me more projects on top of everything.  It’s not even like I can stay late and make overtime and get everything I need to do done–I have to rush out of there every day and go to school.  I have a feeling they are trying to push me out.  I work at a very inconsiderate, cold and uncaring law firm–at least when it comes to management.  You’d think the lawyers I work for would encourage me and be happy for me for going to school and following my dream–instead it is the contrary.  They look at it in terms of what they’re losing…the slave labor they’ll be losing.  I’d quit, but I honestly don’t know how I would ever make ends meet.

So on top of my schedule I have to find ways to get all of my reading/homework done.  It’s been difficult, but I’m managing.  I tend to work well under pressure and my first couple of assignments so far have been returned to me with great grades.  I’m happy.  I like feeling like I finally have purpose.  I’m finally on a path that I believe in…and its a path that I’m suited for.

I’m also in love.