Posted by Mike, tasc57am@yahoo.com , on 1/01/04

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I graduated summa cum laude from a Community College in Lake
County with an Associate of Applied Business in Paralegal
Studies Degree in May of 2003. After sending over 100
resumes and a handful of fruitless interviews I was forced
to work in a factory through a temporary agency making $10
per hour with no benefits. I had 23 years of service at GE
prior to getting my paralegal degree and because of a layoff
in 2001 enrolled in the Paralegal Program at Lakeland. When
I left GE I was making $17.80 an hour. I was getting to the
point where I had to get over the fact that I had such a
good job for so many years and had apparently chosen the
wrong field to pursue as a solution to my layoff. THERE IS A
GOD! After 3 months of factory work, circumstances at GE
enabled them to hire me back.I now make $20 an hour, have my
23 years back PLUS 1 because they covered me for a year of
my layoff, and enjoy 5 weeks of vacation annually plus 4
paid personal days. I TAKE NONE OF THIS FOR GRANTED though
and will return to Lakeland for spring semester to begin the
prerequisites for the Respiratory Therapy program lest I
should be laid off in the future from GE and find myself in
the cold again.

Cleveland Area Paralegal Positions, 1/01/04, by Mike.

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