MuffinvilleAs an #ActuallyAutistic former #lawyer I wish I could have had the opportunity to work at a place like the fictional Hanbada #LawFirm in #ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo. The character presents in an exaggerated way because it’s #television, but honestly her mind is depicted as working much like mine and I have similar recall, ability to see the one hole everyone else missed, etc. But I’d walk into interviews and clearly be dismissed on sight.
I graduated in a terrible recession (class of 2011) and lived in a particularly awful market (New Orleans). It was never lost on me that the best job I landed was in a situation where they did a phone interview and couldn’t see me. Ironically I chose law school in part because hiring decisions were generally based pretty solely on class rank, and in a normal economy at my top tier school with my rank I would have ended up in big law.
99% of the time I am happy with how things shook out for me, but the truth is I have an enormous amount of student loan debt because I never secured stable employment with my #JD that even came close to cracking US household #MedianIncome. When those financial realities rear up more than 10 years later, as they have today, I feel deeply frustrated.