June 18, 2022
I am SUPER excited that my supervisor is so enthusiastic about my haunted house pitch- I am going to bump priority and begin this one immediately. I've pulled up a bunch of YouTube videos on haunted houses for sale, and it feels both spooky and fun. (I did learn of some "famous" haunted houses in cities I've lived in- which I had never known before, which was awesome)
Now here is my weekly check in: The prompts this week were: what are our strengths and weaknesses with researching? And what is our ideal career?
Researching is one of my most favorite things to do. Always has been, probably always will be. With that said, I'm an opener. I tend to get super excited about a project and spent a huge chunk of time sourcing out everything I can find. I rabbit hole, I derail. I often am still researching well after I should be putting all that info together. And that is my weakness. I'm not a very good closer. I overthink and rethink and rabbit hole again and then at the eleventh hour I'm surrounded by all this good research that needs to be written. I work on this by researching ways to work on it, and yeah. Back to square one, haha
As far as ideal job...I want to research, I want to discover. I want to write about it. I have been looking at jobs in advocacy and think tank organizations, and I've flagged a few to apply to. Ideally I would like to merge my legal background with some form of research and advocacy. But I'm also in a stage in my life where I want to do that remotely, at least until my daughter is older. I thought I wanted to be a law librarian at a law school. I am still considering that, however part of me wants to also do some advocacy work. (My last job was in sex crimes, but that was a difficult field for me to be pregnant with a girl in, mainly why I left it) So, that's where I'm at. Fair and Just Prosecution, Southern Poverty Law Center, National Center for State Courts, are all organizations that I'm looking at applying to. In an earlier stage of my life pre-child, I would have been ready and willing to move anywhere for a job- Law Library of Congress would have been at the top of my list. (But really, I want to do what Josh and Chuck do on Stuff You Should Know. Oh- thanks for the podcast recommendations! I love it!)
Comments