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CT 757: does anyone know a paralegal who enjoys insensitive jokes

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Yeah I don’t see the problem here, not a single student at Wake on a law career path wants to be a fucking paralegal. They graduate Wake and go to law school and become an attorney.
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
Yeah I don’t see the problem here, not a single student at Wake on a law career path wants to be a fucking paralegal. They graduate Wake and go to law school and become an attorney.
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Not every Wake kid is a silver spooner, some may need to make money first before they go to law school, so this would be a good experience for them to learn about the practice of law, which undergrad does absolutely nothing for, and also allow them to save money before grad school. Law schools look favorably on people with real world legal experience as well when it comes to admission. Its not a bad gig at all, and hopefully some students are not so adverse to hard work that they wouldn't take this opportunity and run with it.
 
Donkey Deac Doug said:
First and foremost, paralegals do not have to be licensed. There's no paralegal school that's a requirement to being a paralegal.
If they do the job for 10 years, the $300,000 is entirely forgiven. Also, a paralegal in my office starts at like $60,000, and by the end of the 10 years is going to be making six figures in a LOCL city. Plus full Federal benefits.
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That actually doesn't sound bad; much better than my first job out of college.
 
Annoying office lady now talking very loudly about her ex’s crazy new girlfriend.
 
my wife worked as a paralegal for a couple years after graduating WFU, great way to figure out she didn't actually want to go to law school
 
Donkey Deac Doug said:
This is exactly what frustrated me about the experience. And English degree would be a perfect fit for what we're looking for.
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yea as someone who graduated in the summer, if career services had connected me to a 60k starting salary, even in GREENSBORO, i would have been over the moon. took me a few years and some pretty shit jobs to make that much. i didn't spend $350k (or even $100k for that matter) to go to wake, but still, this frustrates me to no end. i know we're a liberal arts school and all, but career services should be a primary function of the university!
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
Yeah I don’t see the problem here, not a single student at Wake on a law career path wants to be a fucking paralegal. They graduate Wake and go to law school and become an attorney.
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I am 100% not looking to hire someone who wants to go to law school. I have a reasonable belief that there are English majors and Political Science majors who would be a good fit for this job.
 
You should go straight to the department chairs then. They’d be happy to let you bring some pizzas to a conference room and talk to their students.
 
after about 60 english credit hours i still wasn't qualified for my first job in publishing, as a copyeditor. had to go obtain an additional certification just to read references sections of journal articles 8 hrs a day for $24k (granted a dozen years ago, bet i'd make a cool $30k now). thoug fortunately that work is either AI or offshore now!
 
PhDeac said:
You should go straight to the department chairs then. They’d be happy to let you bring some pizzas to a conference room and talk to their students.
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Yeah man, you're right.

I should skip the University Office that is SPECIFICALLY designated to do the thing that I'm looking to do (which also happens to be the entire point of higher education that isn't seeking an elevated degree), and DO THEIR JOB to reach out to individual department chairs at a school where students are spending nearly 1/2 a million dollars to attend. Like, FUCK ME, right?
 
At the gravestone place finally getting one for my dad who died 3 years ago. My mom tells the woman that she’s local but I’m visiting from California

“So how are the immigrants out there ?”
 
Career Services at Wake Forest University sucked when I graduated ~20 years ago. Just terrible.

Career Services at University of Florida was fantastic when I completed my graduate degree ~8 years after that.

I realize it is only a sample size of n=2 (and that it isn't apples to apples), but it was night and day in terms of how helpful they were.
 
Donkey Deac Doug said:
Yeah man, you're right.

I should skip the University Office that is SPECIFICALLY designated to do the thing that I'm looking to do (which also happens to be the entire point of higher education that isn't seeking an elevated degree), and DO THEIR JOB to reach out to individual department chairs at a school where students are spending nearly 1/2 a million dollars to attend. Like, FUCK ME, right?
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I can’t tell if you’re agreeing with me or mocking me.

You want to get in front of the students. You can do it with two steps (you talk to faculty, faculty talk to students) instead of working through a bureaucracy during one of the busiest times of the year.
 
PhDeac said:
I can’t tell if you’re agreeing with me or mocking me.

You want to get in front of the students. You can do it with two steps (you talk to faculty, faculty talk to students) instead of working through a bureaucracy during one of the busiest times of the year.
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I'm agreeing with you, but mocking my plight of not being able to use the tool that's literally made for the job.
 
dartsndeacs said:
At the gravestone place finally getting one for my dad who died 3 years ago. My mom tells the woman that she’s local but I’m visiting from California

“So how are the immigrants out there ?”
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I think Doug needs to pull himself up by the bootstraps and get out there and do it himself. Stop relying on others!
 
Most likely the athletic department surveillance of this place resulted in a Doug file that includes things like shitting in customer service employees mouths and eating Taco Bell hot sauce off the bodies of teenage hitchhikers in the back of his truck. Needless to say he is blackballed from any interactions with the university.
 
Donkey Deac Doug said:
First and foremost, paralegals do not have to be licensed. There's no paralegal school that's a requirement to being a paralegal.
If they do the job for 10 years, the $300,000 is entirely forgiven. Also, a paralegal in my office starts at like $60,000, and by the end of the 10 years is going to be making six figures in a LOCL city. Plus full Federal benefits.
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Hey knight can I be your paralegal?
 
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