it's over.

the results of the trademark tryouts aren't out yet, but they're probably a moot point. i know i completely tanked my tryout. nothing i did, said, or answered felt right.

this year keeps beating me over the head with one recurring theme: i better find my great, hidden love of transactional work, because i'm never going to make it as a litigator.

poker, poker, it's all...going to end up in employment?

this is neat. it's a trading firm who hosted a poker tournament for its college recruits. i love the idea...as long as the traders who were watching the people play knew something about poker, they could get a really good idea of how people made tough, big-money decisions under pressure, and how people reacted if their mathematically correct poker decision ended up blowing up in their fact. call it a high-stakes case interview.

i wish legal recruiting involved poker games. it wouldn't be nearly as relevant as in trading, but it would have made the gauntlet of interviews these last two years a lot more entertaining.

how not to get a job

rinkworks is awesome...it's basically a compendium of funny stuff. i've been reading "computer stupidities" on there for a while, and have finally started reading other humour pages they have.

this one's specifically for the mad jurist, and his collection of things that should not go on cover letters. they call it resume quotations, but it includes terrible lines from both resumes and cover letters. many of them are extremely amusing, but these are my favourites:

• "I have a bachelorette degree in computers." (so you got a degree in looking at strippers on the internet while drinking lots of beer? where can i get one of those?)
• "I can play well with others." (do you also avoid running with scissors?)
• "I am the king of accounts payable reconciliation." (do you get a funny hat, like the Burger King? can you sneak up on people in the morning, reconcile their accounts payable, and slip away as if they were hallucinating?)
• "Skills: Operated Pitney Bones machine." (what did you do to Gene Pitney's bones?! "only love can break a heart" was sappy, but it's a good oldie!)
• "I saw your ad on the information highway, and I came to a screeching halt." (so, i looked up "cheesy" in webster's dictionary. i think this was in the definition somewhere.)
• "My fortune cookie said, 'Your next interview will result in a job' -- and I like your company in particular." (that one could work out really well, or really poorly. it's humourous, but all i can think of is someone like my music theory sub from twelfth grade, or that "god warrior" lady from trading spouses, would find it and start screaming that the candidate was giving credence to fortune cookies instead of the bible. i don't know why i'm picturing this, but it amuses me. so, there.)
  

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yep. hunch confirmed. audition was terrible. didn't make the trademark moot court.