What do you want to be when you grow up?

Well, I finished my first year of law school. I passed all of my classes and as of a week ago, received my grades, which hopefully won't be reversed, and became a rising 2L. I am a 1L grunt no more and, as I think about it, will never be a freshman again. For the next two years I will be a cool upperclassman...well, at least I'll be an upperclassman. Anyway, I had no luck on the job front so a friend of mine offered to let me come work for him in his solo practice here in Atlanta.

After one grueling year of law school you start to wonder, "What the heck am I doing?" Particularly around exams you start to say things like, "What was I thinking, more exams? I had a perfectly good job that had no exams, some quizzes, but no exams, argghhh!" Well, tomorrow will be my 9th day on my summer job and I've decided that I like the law or at least I like what I'm doing and don't think that I've made a terrible decision with my life.

You know what I do find annoying though, it's annoying when people ask, "You're in law school? What kind of law do you want to practice?" I don't know, I've had one year of law school and I don't know what I want to do. Up until last week I wasn't even sure if I liked law school or the law. (I've since figured out that I like the law; I don't like law school. I mean, who likes school anyway?) It's not that the question is inappropriate it's just that it makes me feel like I should have some kind of an answer and since I'm not sure what I want to do, it just makes me sort of worried that I don't. I know that I don't think I want to practice criminal law, so that's at least a quarter of an answer.

Later this month or early July I should be able to register for classes for next year. Ask me again after a year of electives.