I know I tweet silly things about dating and mess around with my friends on here and post cat pics and outfits but I want to talk a minute about why being on here and my account being on public and not private is important to me. (Thread)

I struggled to make friends in law school. My best friend was someone I'd met online on the Law School Application subreddit and we just happened to end up going to the same law school. I've always had a hard time in-person and that removed support from my peers as an option.

I got a B- in essentially every class and had a 2.9 GPA all of law school no matter what how hard I tried. 1L summer came around and I started looking for a summer job. My career office said that me only having retail jobs and not college internships was a dealbreaker and also

most jobs would be unwilling to hire a 20 year old. My GPA was too low for private sector OCI and I failed to even get an interview to work FOR FREE for any of the govt agencies. I asked my Family Law professor for help locating a job and she said "maybe you're just a person who

needs to take classes in the summer instead" I emailed my resume and a personalized cover letter to every single family law firm in my entire city. Every single one. I finally got a response from a family solo practitioner who agreed to hire me for 1L summer. When she asked my

school about me, they asked her why she would bother hiring me and not just hire one of their recent grads as an associate instead. She hired me. When 1L summer was over, I was able to use my boss's reference to get a year-round spot at a slightly bigger family law firm in town.

I stayed there meanwhile my school tried to push my firm to hire another student from my school which would have effectively cut my hours (and I needed the money) in half. Luckily my firm decided to keep me at basically full-time instead. Meanwhile, my extracurriculars were a

DISASTER. I applied to be a school tour guide (which in theory you could have unlimited people do) and I was one of TWO people out of EVERYONE that applied not selected. I managed to get on Law Review but only bc I studied my butt off on the anonymously graded Bluebook test.

Grades still sucked. Meanwhile grad and bar exam were approaching and I got sat down by school for the "Your GPA and MPRE scores (did pass MPRE on the first time tho) make you a concern for first time bar passage talk. My firm I'd been at throughout 2L/3L ultimately decided to

not make me an attorney offer. I was devastated. Found a Family Court Clerkship. I emailed career office asking for my resume to sent and if the position was still available. They didn't respond for quite a few days so I ended up emailing the judicial clerk directly and she got

me an interview. The morning of my interview, my Career Office emailed me back saying "sorry, the clerkship had been filled." I ended up being offered the clerkship but she was unable to give off any time at all for bar prep. Based on school's warning I knew I had to study

full-time to pass the bar on the first time. Had to turn the clerkship down. Graduated. Started bar prep. Which went poorly. Couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, couldn't focus. My Themis % counter barely moved for the first 6 weeks of prep. Early February I heard though a school

group chat that a family law associate attorney spot had opened up at a local firm. I applied. Got it and I was their first choice. School apparently was pushing for it to be a clerk spot instead for a 1L bc of course they did. Took the bar. Started working at new job as a clerk

until bar results were released and I was about 75% sure that I failed. I passed. And now I'm here and I'm a full-time associate attorney doing exclusively family law. I guess this matters bc you guys are all so impressive sometimes. Like some of y'all are LITERALLY general

counsel for companies, like what? I keep my DMs open and probably get around 10-15 DMs a day from law school applicants and law students, typically not affiliated with "LawTwitter" at all for advice for what to do if you're not the good, color-coded, 8 hours of study a day law

students and that matters to me. I wish there had been someone like me on here when I was in school and looking for a job and prepping for the bar and I just feel like there wasn't? Not that some of y'all haven't worked super hard, just feel like the struggle isn't always tweeted

about. So I know I'm not important or perfect or maybe even qualified to tell anyone anything about law at all, but if me talking about these things can inspire or help even just one person on here, I think that's worth it. And I'm not about to allowed some nasty lawyers force me

to put my account on private and close my DMs where I can't be available for those people who want to talk to me. If y'all want to talk about anything, my DMs are open and I make an effort to get through as many as I can. Sorry to blow up everyone's TL with this long-ass thread.