In search of a new direction

I've always wanted to travel. I love being overseas and I hate being "stuck" somewhere for a long period of time. Some other careers I have contemplated, but have had little momentum to pursue as they are highly competitive are: (1) the foreign service; (2) becoming a travel writer; (3) working for one of the international organizations like the IMF, UN, or Red Cross.

Right now I'm applying to get into the Navy JAG. We'll see how that goes. It's very competitive generally, and I'm sure this year there are millions of unemployed lawyers like myself who are applying.

I've also contemplated moving into technology. There seems to be some growth in this area.

Life of an unemployed lawyer

Today is a typical day for me. I get up about 6 a.m. to see my husband off to work. I lounge around on the internet for the next three hours, look for jobs, send a couple of resumes to jobs that, in non-desperate times, I would never even bother applying too. Then I get bored. I play with my dogs and parrot and get ready for Big J to come home. At night I watch some teev and get ready to do it all over again the next day.

It seems kind of sad, but it really is not much different than the average day in any American's life. The only real difference is that my day is void of fruits of toil, as I am a part of that growing minority of the unemployed.

I am an unemployed lawyer. A year ago today, my life was going well. I was an attorney, at a law firm, and working. I was working overseas in fact. But I've recently relocated to the land of plenty, unfortunately right before the sky fell on Lehman Brothers et al., and so I am now I have no work.

I try not to be too depressed. I try to think that when life deals you lemons, you make lemon aide. I seem, however, to have run out of sugar.