I'm willing to give and receive a second chance. The reason I haven't called him is because he said he planned to call me -- I don't want to "push" him. What I may do instead is write up a fax to send to him tomorrow, since I plan to go to the DOL and use their fax machine to send my resume to a few places, anyway. Or maybe write a letter and drop it into the mail.
But I'm not really worried that he's going to make it difficult for me to find a job. The four days with him isn't going on my resume; the four months I interned with Timmons, Warnes, & Anderson is on my resume, and counts for more. I do know they liked my work and we got along fine, even if they were too cheap to fully reimburse the money I spent out of my own pocket for extra gas when I had a lot of deliveries to make. They're giving me a good recommendation -- the lady I interviewed with at the Social Security law firm told me T,W, &A spoke well of me.
So, I'll try to smooth the waters with Helmreich, because it's the right thing to do. I just don't hold much hope, based on what his office manager (Brenda, the one who told me he likes to put people down) told me about him, that he'll do the right thing, too. Luckily, that shouldn't handicap me in the future...!
(I'm also going to try to move ahead with my plans to earn my bachelor's degree and then go on to law school. I'd rather not pay for the latter entirely with financial aid, which would probably consist in large part of loans. But it's a tough job market, and I've figured out what you say about most lawyers being assholes is indeed true. I owe it to myself to keep my real goal, becoming a lawyer who isn't an asshole and who wants to try to make the legal system better, in mind and moving forward. Working as a paralegal would help pay the law school expenses, but it's not an absolute necessity for reaching my goals, so if it doesn't happen it's not the end of the world for me.)
But I'm not really worried that he's going to make it difficult for me to find a job. The four days with him isn't going on my resume; the four months I interned with Timmons, Warnes, & Anderson is on my resume, and counts for more. I do know they liked my work and we got along fine, even if they were too cheap to fully reimburse the money I spent out of my own pocket for extra gas when I had a lot of deliveries to make. They're giving me a good recommendation -- the lady I interviewed with at the Social Security law firm told me T,W, &A spoke well of me.
So, I'll try to smooth the waters with Helmreich, because it's the right thing to do. I just don't hold much hope, based on what his office manager (Brenda, the one who told me he likes to put people down) told me about him, that he'll do the right thing, too. Luckily, that shouldn't handicap me in the future...!
(I'm also going to try to move ahead with my plans to earn my bachelor's degree and then go on to law school. I'd rather not pay for the latter entirely with financial aid, which would probably consist in large part of loans. But it's a tough job market, and I've figured out what you say about most lawyers being assholes is indeed true. I owe it to myself to keep my real goal, becoming a lawyer who isn't an asshole and who wants to try to make the legal system better, in mind and moving forward. Working as a paralegal would help pay the law school expenses, but it's not an absolute necessity for reaching my goals, so if it doesn't happen it's not the end of the world for me.)
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