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Come Back Down

Thanks to all of you for the congrats, it's been a pretty amazing few days. For the most part I've been on cloud nine. But it all has to end at some point and I have to come back down to reality. The mandatory staff meeting we had yesterday afternoon at work managed to do just that. After the morning of congratulatory celebrations and hugs and cookies and flowers wore off the reality of what it means to be an attorney with my office set it.

It's going to be a lot of work, and I'm fully ready for it, I knew when I signed up it wasn't going to be an easy 8-5 M-F kind of gig. But along with that dose of reality came a lot of fear and anxiety. I know everyone has to start somewhere and no one knows everything out of the gate. But yesterday afternoon I literally felt like I know absolutely NOTHING despite the fact that I've worked at my office for two years and have seen more of the behind the scenes stuff that goes into prosecuting cases than most other people who just graduated law school and are hoping to get jobs as DAs.

I'm glad we have a 3 day weekend (yes, Monday is Columbus Day, a holiday I don't think I've ever had off, even years ago as a public school kid, thank you government work!) it'll hopefully give me some time to rest up before the madness begins. I'm also thinking some celebratory retail therapy is in order. There's a bracelet I've wanted forever that I promised myself I would get if I passed the bar and got a job. I wasn't planning on those two things happening the same day, but since they did I think that means I get to go buy my bracelet :-) And apparently there are these things called suits that attorneys have to wear, I guess I'll have to go in search of those too........

Full post as published by [ Useless Dicta ] on October 10, 2009 (boomark / email).