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Were they afraid we were planning a coup d'etat?
I spent my first summer during Columbia Law School at a firm in Philadelphia described as one of the best places in the city for black lawyers. I believed that if there was any place where I would have an equal chance at opportunities, be treated fairly and succeed, this would be it. There were three black female summer associates out of sixty that year but any time all three of us were in an office talking, one of the partners would knock on the door to see how we were doing. It happened too often to be a coincidence that sometimes we would purposely agree to meet in so-and-so's office to test our theory that we were being monitored. Like clock work, ten minutes after we would get together a partner would stop by.
I woke up at 45 and asked myself...
- Workplace Unfairness
- Female
- Caucasian
- Lesbian
- Health Care
- Left & is now Self-Employed
- Personal Care & Service
- Life Purpose
- Personal Response
- Quitting
- Worklife Balance
I woke up at 45 and asked myself, "You know, you never asked me if I liked these rules." I don't like working this many hours per week. There were a number of things in my life that I wanted to explore that I didn't have time to do. I was getting more into body work and shamanic healing. I wanted to travel more. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do. So I started to beg my boss to lay me off..."Come on, lay me off." I started looking for other jobs, part-time jobs. I soon saw that wasn't going to work, so a year went by and I was still making noise. I knew I didn't want any of these part time jobs so I just quit. I know if I stayed there I wasn't going to be able to do whatever the next thing was I was meant to do..