Nothing puts me in a better mood than to return home after spending three weeks with my sister and find another rejection letter waiting for me in my mailbox. Seriously, not even chocolate or a CSI marathon on Spike can cheer me up that much.Okay, I'm being facetious. The letter didn't put me in a good mood. It just gave me a headache. This time the letter came from a court in Tallahassee that was advertising that it had three openings for law clerks. I won't say which court or what judge it came from specifically. However, I will say that the judge or the judge's secretary anyway couldn't bother to write a letter specifically for us losers who didn't even get an interview. No, he or she sent out the same letter that he or she sent to the interviewed losers. How do I know? Well, because the letter said something along the lines of "Thank you for interviewing. It was difficult choosing between the interviewed candidates, but I have filled the position." Yeah, that's nice and all, but I didn't interview. Hello! Apparently, despite the fact that I was a law clerk for FOUR AND A HALF YEARS, I wasn't qualified enough to make the first cut. So why add insult to injury and send me the interview letter?
I guess it's a blessing in disguise. If the judge cuts corners like that when sending out rejection letters, he's bound to cut corners in other areas as well, areas that have more dire consequences legally. I've already worked for one judge like that. I don't care to work for another one.
Oh, and did I mention that the law office that rejected me a few days after Christmas found it necessary to send me a second rejection email a few days ago? Well, they did. Nice, huh.? Nothing like reminding a person just how much they suck.
