Good Luck to Feb bar takers!
I just wanted to stop in and wish everyone taking the Feb 09 bar good luck! I am taking yet another exam and not looking forward to it. Though I have been studying, I still feel woefully unprepared. I haven't studied much of the state specific subjects and have instead been focusing on MBE stuff- which is a gamble I am not sure will pay off next week! If any of you guys have suggestions on how to cram for that last week, I'd love to hear them!
For those of you out there who are multiple re-takers- take heart! Remember this is not your whole life and not what defines you as a person. It's just a test. As someone who has always had trouble with the bar, the sad reality is that practicing law is just not that fun and not worth all this trouble! Some people battle with food addiction, drug addiction, alcohol addiction- we battle with bar exam addiction and the need to PASS- and then PASS again!
For people who asked if you needed to be barred to get job offers in NJ, I would say that is pretty much true in ANY state, unfortunately. Most places you need to be barred so that it doesn't look like you are practicing law without a license, and many firms won't hire JDs without licenses. Nowadays, with the bad economy, this is even more true. But no worries! If you do pass, you are pretty much guaranteed to find a job- it may not be one you like, or one that pays a lot, but you will. And you will move up from there!
GOOD LUCK! Stay calm, and be happy that in a week and a half, you won't have to study until at least May :)
For those of you out there who are multiple re-takers- take heart! Remember this is not your whole life and not what defines you as a person. It's just a test. As someone who has always had trouble with the bar, the sad reality is that practicing law is just not that fun and not worth all this trouble! Some people battle with food addiction, drug addiction, alcohol addiction- we battle with bar exam addiction and the need to PASS- and then PASS again!
For people who asked if you needed to be barred to get job offers in NJ, I would say that is pretty much true in ANY state, unfortunately. Most places you need to be barred so that it doesn't look like you are practicing law without a license, and many firms won't hire JDs without licenses. Nowadays, with the bad economy, this is even more true. But no worries! If you do pass, you are pretty much guaranteed to find a job- it may not be one you like, or one that pays a lot, but you will. And you will move up from there!
GOOD LUCK! Stay calm, and be happy that in a week and a half, you won't have to study until at least May :)
Labels: encouragement, good luck
posted by JD at 11:01 PM
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I took the July 09 Florida bar exam and failed the MBE. I passed the FL portion, though. We got our results today and it has been the worst day of my life. I wanted to say thanks for your posts, they're definitely encouraging and you have a good outlook. I'm usually a pretty positive person but today has been impossible to deal with. All my friends passed, or so I think, so I feel like a complete idiot.
I hope you're doing well these days!
I'm sad because I signed up for the NY bar, finished 7 weeks of Bar Review, only for my landlord to tell me he needs his (illegal) basement apartment for his dumb grandson who's moving here in August. I intended to take the bar, stay here for a year, work, save some money, and then move back to Atlanta. But NOW I have to get out of here before August 1, so it really makes no sense to take the bar, pay exorbitant hotel fees, pay to get sworn in, pay for the certificate of fitness, when I'm not going to use this bar card. So after ALL this, I have to forego taking the bar exam so that I can pack and move back to GA. It's just insane. I can't take the exam in GA until NEXT July. But the upside is that I will be spending the year becoming an MBE Master - which in GA, all but guarantees passing. *sigh* I'm a little despondent because all my friends are still studying and going to classes and gearing up for the 3 day review etc. and I'm here packing and wont' even be taking the exam for a year. It's sad. *sigh* I feel so left out and down.
Thanks for writing this, it makes me feel a little better. =(
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