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Soooo....

I packed-up my office today. Tomorrow, I start in the new building. It was harder leaving the old place than I thought it would be.

Yes, but think about how hard it will be to spend less time in your Mini!

1 year clerks don't get health insurance. How did I miss this? 2-year clerks do.

Please, pretty please, cross your fingers and toes and hope that The Honorable Judge from Sioux Falls calls me soon to offer me the position.

Honestly, he sounds like a good guy. He said he calls his clerks his attorneys, not his clerks, because he feels "clerk" is too demeaning for the level of work his clerks do.

I know I keep blathering about this, but it would be such an amazing opportunity. Even if it means frozen winters.

I have a weeks worth of homework to do. And I haven't even started. Too busy unpacking, buying stuff to stash my stuff since my new place doesn't have a lot of places for stuff.

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Originally Posted by Prudence (Post 163832)

Now I face a dilemma.

I'd much rather have a 2-year clerkship. A 1-year clerkship that starts in August means that I'd be applying for the next job or clerkship before I even started the first one. And a district court judge is considered to be more prestigious than a magistrate judge and would be an easier path to a potential circuit court clerkship.

However, all things considered I'd prefer Wheeling to Sioux Falls. And while I don't really want to have a huge lag time between graduation and a job, and 8 months seems like a lot, 1 week seems too short. That would be packing up, selling the condo, and relocating -- all in three months. While finishing classes. In the winter. At the holidays. In the snow. Uphill both ways, barefoot.

I don't know whether I hope SD judge offers me the position or picks someone else. ARG!

Well, the condo is more likely to sell the following spring than it is during the holidays (typically THE slowest time of the year... if it can get any slower :rolleyes: ) I don't know if that influences your decision at all.

Sounds to me like the district court is the way to go... is that the 1-year or the 2-year?

The Seattle market is the only one that's hot right now, or so the paper tells us. From that perspective, I'd like to sell before it crashes like everywhere else. (And buy somewhere that it's already crashed!) The district court in SD, starting in Jan, is the 2-year.

Oh, you're in Seattle, eh? Well, then that works.

If it's any consolation, I've a friend who had to relocate to Sioux Falls and she loves it there. It seems to suck considerably less than some of the other burgs in the Dakotas.

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid (Post 163848)

Yes, but think about how hard it will be to spend less time in your Mini!

True.

Just for fun, I have spent the last 90 minutes reading this thread from page one. Wow. We should contact a publisher, or write a screan play.