A Room with a View
I know that I owe everyone a lot of posts to catch up to speed as to what's been going on with my life. Since that sounds a little overwhelming at the moment, I'll start first with the most recent thing and try to work my way backwards. I'm nothing, if not the pillar of logical data distribution.
I look back at the posts from February and it's hard to believe how sad I was. The job search was grueling. Work at the firm was kicking my ass. And we were poor. The good news is that I have finally! found! my dream job. Believe it or not, it's not teaching. I am now the knight of death for new American lawyers. That's right, I am a manager at a legal process outsourcing firm.
On days that I'm not traveling, I work at home. They're paying me twice what I was getting paid at the firm. And they're paying me to travel to cool places, like New York, Los Angeles, London and Mumbai. Oh sure, every once in a while they throw a trip to Tulsa in there, but for the most part, it's a great gig. Thus far, I feel like I haven't really done anything, but they claim to be very impressed by my "productivity." Ahem. I haven't done anything.
Suckers.
I don't think outsourcing is a bad thing. In fact, I'm looking to pick up more contract work myself after this baby gets here. I think the legal profession needs to evolve to allow people to use our degrees/skills without being tied to a firm. If your new job has given you insights on how to score contract assignments, I'd appreciate any advice!
Posted by: wavybrains | September 14, 2007 at 06:26 PM
Very cool. Does that mean the diet coke rationing has been eliminated?
Posted by: starfish | September 16, 2007 at 08:28 PM
Good to read you again!
Your mate in Sydney
Cathy
Posted by: Cathy | September 17, 2007 at 03:24 AM
I saw this article today, and I thought of you guys. I know you adopt from Columbia, but I wondered if changes in policy in another Latin American country could influence policy changes in Columbia. I hope not.
http://tinyurl.com/39jj5a
Posted by: Paul | October 04, 2007 at 03:15 PM
Hey, glad you are back. Missed you! So glad you are getting paid for doing nothing. You want to hire me?
Posted by: Betsy | October 23, 2007 at 09:50 PM