Reply #246: Excellent point

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Me:

B.A. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (University of Mn)
J.D. Harvard Law School (with good grades); 3 years on a journal (not the Harvard Law Review, but a respected scholarly journal)

I've been unemployed since Jan 1, 2006 and worked temp jobs with no benefits from 2002-mid 2004. I'd be homeless if it weren't for the generosity of friends and a cousin who married money as I lost my car a year ago and was foreclosed out of my house early this year.

I guess that is the price of being brilliant but Asperger's in a world that puts more value on your ability to socialize than your ability to do the job.

I'm not surprised that you couldn't get a paralegal gig. in my experience law firms, and especially other paralegals, hate nothing so much as someone with a law degree who applies for a paralegal position. The lawyers think it means "failure as a lawyer' and the paralegals resent your butting into their territory.