Why I Am Choosing to Become a Paralegal

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Why I Am Choosing to Become a Paralegal My great and glorious career never manifested. After obtaining a degree in English, I spent years working in unfulfilling jobs that did not play to my strengths. No matter how many questions I asked during the interview, I somehow managed to find positions where there were either no real growth opportunity or serious, internal company problems. I knew I would one day go back to school for some type of more specialized training; however, being a person of diverse interests, I could not decide which interest would sustain me in the long run. The solution to my career crisis came in an unexpected way. On a late spring day in 2007, my mother was involved in a car accident. She had broken her arm in several places. Although a relatively minor injury, it had a major impact on our family. We live on a farm where a large portion of our food supply comes from our garden. Since my father is gone for weeks at a time with his job, my mother is the main person who tends the garden and functions as the primary care-giver for my invalid grandfather. It takes an able-bodied person to do all of this. For our family to survive, I quit my going-nowhere job to spend the summer gardening and nursing two patients. My parents spent the summer constantly on the phone with our lawyer about the accident. Meanwhile, with legal issues at the forefront of my mind, a separate component of my brain was going, “Hmmm. A paralegal. Never thought of THAT before.” By the end of summer my mother’s cast came off and I emerged with a new plan. It was a mad scramble to get my financial aid and school application documents together in time for the fall semester, but by August 1, 2007, I was ready. Eventually, my parents would settle their lawsuit, but I had found a new direction for my life. I knew that I had chosen a career that would finally

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