Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 8:30 AM: My life changes. Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 5:00 PM: my life changes again. And no, this was not simply because the work hours of a day began and ended.
Life has been clever in the way it brings me important changes - they all seem to happen at once. Back in 2006, I married my love and bought a home and started law school within five weeks. This summer, I sold and moved out of my first home and bought and moved into my second home within four weeks and while studying long hours for the bar exam.
On Tuesday, I started my first "grown-up" job and found out if I passed the Missouri bar within 8 1/2 hours. Someone at the firm decided that that excitement was not sufficient. No, instead, with the bar results coming out at 5:00, we needed to have a party at 4:30 to welcome us to the firm - well intentioned, I am sure, but that meant that we found out if we passed or failed in front of over 100 attorneys whom we desperately needed to impress. And at 4:59, the wonderful (really, he is) chairman of the firm meandered over to ask about my first day. Guess who I was speaking with when I found out my results.
But the good news is that they were happy - both the first day at work and the bar results. I passed, and the firm promises to be a fabulous place to work.
Paul threw me a spontaneous celebratory party that night, and my friends and family dropped their plans to make the party. It was a great night.
Yay! I'm so proud of you! We need to catch up on how your first week of work was!
ReplyDeleteI just found your blog and I am so proud/so happy for you!! Way to go (even though this is months and months later... =)
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