I feel a little displaced without a job right now, but I'm still looking and staying hopeful. I have a couple leads on volunteer opportunities that sound amazing. Plus, I've been keeping busy with planning a public interest law conference for next year, doing chores and errands, cooking, gardening, and spending time with my best girl, Apricot.

Sometimes I think that I like her more than she likes me. Then she tries to stick her tongue in my mouth and I realize that I was wrong.

I've also had time to hit up the gym, which is great since I was worried I wouldn't be able to put my summer membership to use when I was working those crazy hours. I am sadly out of shape and can barely run for 20 minutes, but I have plans to fix that by the end of summer. 

I'm off to be productive. Enjoy your tuesdays!

Quitting

After only 2 weeks, I quit my job at a law firm for the summer. I debated whether to post this online, but I don't mind people knowing what happened.

 I had been told I would be paid, which I assumed would be at least minimum wage. It turned out they wanted to pay me less than $2 an hour. I explained that I have rent and bill payments over the summer, but they said they couldn't pay me more than that, even though they were billing my time out to clients.  I told them I understood, but could I possibly work only 8 hours a day instead of the 10 to 12 hours they were having me stay, or work fewer days per week? Again, I was told no. So I quit.

I feel I made the right decision, since what they were doing was not only illegal, but really taking advantage of me. These were not people I wanted to work with for any period of time.

So right now I am jobless and searching for both a paying job and some public interest law internship. I've realized that public interest is what I really want to do anyway.

Have you ever quit a job? Do you think it was the right decision?