For fourth year law student Laura Port, every application brought forth a sense of impending doom no matter the outcome.
A rejection meant she had to come to terms with failure, that all her hours spent on cover letters and psychometric pseudoscience were for nothing.
But an acceptance, that was something else indeed.
Further interview prep, a cocktail evening that you can’t enjoy because it’s secretly another interview in disguise, the risk of seeing the HR rep randomly on the street sometime in the next 18 months and realising that your whole life is henceforth just a long interview where you will never not be judged.
The reward if it all succeeded: a month-long stress intensive with an ever-decreasing chance of retention, all for a grad offer with no guarantee of long-term retention, all for the opportunity to defend consulting firms that blacklist whistleblowers.
It wasn’t exactly the noble human-rights-affirming social-justice-seeking lifestyle Laura envisaged when she filled in QTAC four years ago.
(Un)fortunately, due to her impressive co-curricular resume writing for the Obiter, a 6.7 GPA, and a healthy dose of nominative determinism, Laura Port had accidentally landed no fewer than eleven interviews, all of which had to be scheduled within a week.
Maybe there’s still time to drop the law half of her degree and graduate with straight arts. An Ancient Greek major is definitely just as employable as law, right?
(Seven interviews) more to come
