I think my days defending criminals are over.

I’m looking for a job in television. Why? I’m in California. I like to watch TV, why not work in TV.

Back in June when I was thinking about looking for a new job, I applied to the Office of the Public Defender. When I graduated from law school, I thought that I wanted to save people from divorce, from jail, from themselves. After five years, I realized that it didn’t work. Sure, my clients didn’t go to jail when I was representing them, but left to their own devices, well . . . .

So, I find myself today sitting across a badly laminated table from two public defenders. They’re throwing bizarre hypotheticals at me — yeah, I’ll always lie in court and subvert the law to advance my client’s interest. As if all of these dilemma’s arise when standing in court, day after day, with a case load of hundreds of cases, meeting my clients five minutes before my in court representation.

Fortunately, I have another network interview on Friday.

Adam and I find it ironic that I read articles all the time lamenting the lack of attorneys willing to enter public service. Yet all of the times we’ve tried — it’s been an uphill battle — as if these folks are regularly fighting off Ivy League graduates willing to work for peanuts with hundreds of thousands and dollars in student loans.

So, I’m going to take the word of the receptionist who checked me in today. Paraphrasing his, now, sage wisdom, he said, “Why do you want to work here? These attorneys suck. You should get a real job elsewhere.”

Ok, I will.

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