Less than zero.
Don't you hate those stupid little magazine sidebar features in which the editors try to gloss current trends by reducing them down to lists of cleverly annotated numbers? Totally. Me too.
8: Number of law schools in the Commonwealth.
6: Number of law schools in greater Boston area.
87 to 1: Last estimated ratio of "people" to "lawyers" (each of which are, as we all know, discrete and mutually exclusive categories) in the Commonwealth.
2: Number of Boston legal temp agencies registered with in past two months.
0: Number of placements granted from legal temp agencies, despite diligent contact.
45: Approx. number of resumes and cover letters mailed, e-mailed or faxed in direct response to job postings resembling things that I might be qualified for.
1-3: Number of years of experience required for almost every legal job posting ever.
2: Actual, live, non-phone-based interviews granted from responding to job postings.
150: Approx. number of law firms called in past 1.5 monts to casually enquire about short-term legal employment, or, y'know, if you have it, maybe some real work.
130: Approx. number of carefully-timbred-and-toned-but-not-too-scripted messages left on HR voicemail systems, mostly for my own entertainment.
40: Approx. number of callbacks so far from these messages; some friendly, none helpful.
18: Approx. number of resumes sent in response to callbacks claiming that they would like to have them to "keep on file."
100: Approx. number of HR directors named "Barbara."
1: Approx. number of receptionists who openly laughed at me for even considering calling her firm for short-term legal employment.
1: Approx. number of HR directors named "Barbara" who laughed at me for same.
1: number of dreams had in past month in which I'd passed the bar.
4: number of dreams had in past month in which I'd failed the bar.
75: Approx. statistical chance, in percentage form, that I have, in fact, passed the "Passachusetts" bar the first time.
3.5: Approx. number of weeks until I know either way.
0: Approx. number of Boston legal employers who seem to want to interview, let alone hire, someone from an out-of-state law school who has not yet passed the bar.
8: Number of law schools in the Commonwealth.
6: Number of law schools in greater Boston area.
87 to 1: Last estimated ratio of "people" to "lawyers" (each of which are, as we all know, discrete and mutually exclusive categories) in the Commonwealth.
2: Number of Boston legal temp agencies registered with in past two months.
0: Number of placements granted from legal temp agencies, despite diligent contact.
45: Approx. number of resumes and cover letters mailed, e-mailed or faxed in direct response to job postings resembling things that I might be qualified for.
1-3: Number of years of experience required for almost every legal job posting ever.
2: Actual, live, non-phone-based interviews granted from responding to job postings.
150: Approx. number of law firms called in past 1.5 monts to casually enquire about short-term legal employment, or, y'know, if you have it, maybe some real work.
130: Approx. number of carefully-timbred-and-toned-but-not-too-scripted messages left on HR voicemail systems, mostly for my own entertainment.
40: Approx. number of callbacks so far from these messages; some friendly, none helpful.
18: Approx. number of resumes sent in response to callbacks claiming that they would like to have them to "keep on file."
100: Approx. number of HR directors named "Barbara."
1: Approx. number of receptionists who openly laughed at me for even considering calling her firm for short-term legal employment.
1: Approx. number of HR directors named "Barbara" who laughed at me for same.
1: number of dreams had in past month in which I'd passed the bar.
4: number of dreams had in past month in which I'd failed the bar.
75: Approx. statistical chance, in percentage form, that I have, in fact, passed the "Passachusetts" bar the first time.
3.5: Approx. number of weeks until I know either way.
0: Approx. number of Boston legal employers who seem to want to interview, let alone hire, someone from an out-of-state law school who has not yet passed the bar.
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Hm. Maybe trying to be an opera singer isn't so bad...
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