Any of you NOT in academia?

[George Kalbouss]

Regarding not being in academia,  here's a true story about my daughter.

She is about to graduate from Law School and has been interviewing
various
law firms for a job.  After graduating from college, she worked on
Capitol Hill
for about six years and thought that the Congressional experience would
be
what would make her attractive for a firm. Not the case.  Instead, they
were more
interested that she travelled with me to the USSR in 1989 and 1990
while I was trying to
start some businesses with some partners in Ohio, and that she knew
Russian.
She never gave this adventure a second thought, certainly not
that it would get the attention of interviewers.

        Moral.  By taking Russian, traveling to Russia, etc., you are
immediately
found "more interesting" than the drones that sign up for MBA courses,
do everything lock-step, and seem to know absolutely nothing.

        Yes, she is starting with a top law firm in DC.  The firm has an
office in
Moscow.  No, she will not work in Russia, but a door was opened.

George Kalbouss

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
                  http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------