First meme in a while, swunked from aphoenix2007

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Comment on this entry and I will...

1) Tell you why I friended you
2) Associate you with a song/movie
3) Tell a random fact about you
4) Tell a first memory about you
5) Associate you with an animal/fruit
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you
7) Show you my favourite user pic of yours
8) In retort, you MUST spead this disease in your LJ

Comments

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1) I got to know you through the wonderful kikei. She said you were her best online friend at the time, I think, so, though I knew next to nothing about you, I surmised that if she's good enough for Kiks, she's good enough for me. And you know what? I was right.
2) Something fun and energetic, like Rock around the clock.
3) Although we live within a hundred kilometres of each other, we have not managed to meet yet. My loss.
4) Almost the first thing I found out about you is that you visited Rome and loved the place. That did not dispose me to think badly of you, of course.
5) A small, lively bird with a pretty voice and wonderful plumage. A blue jay, perhaps.
6) What career do you intend to take after graduation?
7) I am not sure you always had this one (tree and blue horizon), but it is the one I remember, and I like it.

[tashmania.livejournal.com]

:) You always give such lovely responses, made even more so by the fact that they're honest.

Career after graduation... now, as we speak, I'm currently filling out a large pile of application forms for vacation placements at big-shot solicitors firms. This, however, is mainly so that I can go on one of these placements to confirm that it's what I don't want to do. I've realised I'm not the kind of person who can be fired up by commercial law; it just doesn't appeal to me. Although, you never know, one of these placements could really appeal to me. Assuming they don't, the alternatives at the moment are:

- Remain as a solicitor, but for the Government Legal Service. I'd still be a lawyer and still be doing interesting challenging work, but 9-5. I said to my friend the other day that I want a work-life balance, and that would be ideal.

- Become a barrister. The advocacy route seems better suited to me than the solicitor's route, especially in the criminal area. I love public speaking, and for some reason it just seems more... 'human' than selling my soul to a big corporate firm.

- Teaching. A bit out of the blue, perhaps, but it's been my quiet dream for some time. I would love nothing more than to be a History or an English teacher, but I need to find out whether I can apply my Law degree to either of them, albeit with some extra training.

So the short answer is: I don't know :) But I have a list of options.