A Blog Revised

If obstacles block your path make your own detour

This blog was started as a means to fulfill the requirements of an assignment for a paralegal course. As you can tell from reading my previous posts; I treated it as such. After reading the other blogs set up by my classmates I realized that I misunderstood the purpose of this assignment. Now that I have a better understanding of what a blog is I have chosen to revise mine.

I am working on starting my own business, but right know I am in the planning stage. I expect that it will take a few months for me to get my ducks in a row, and as luck would have it this assignment will take a couple of months to complete. It must be fate. My plan is to write about what I learn and my own experiences as I work towards my own goals of entrepreneurship.



The focus of this posting is to share with you the information that led me down the path of entrepreneurship. I am a paralegal student working my way towards an associate’s degree, and I only have 2 or 3 quarters left until I graduate. However, I do not expect that I will find my dream job, or really a job at all, right after graduation given the current state of the economy.

Over the summer I checked the usual job websites every few days hoping to get an idea of what area of law needed paralegals the most; so that I could change the course of my study and better my chances of finding a position as a paralegal after graduation. What I discovered was there aren’t really any paralegal jobs in this area, and the few I found required experience. After the panic passed, I started thinking about my options.

Option #1

I could continue to work hard towards my degree and cross my fingers and hope for the best. That could work, right? Well, I don’t have time for that. I need to start working after graduation because I have a big family to feed.

Option #2

I could quit school and get a full time job. But that is much easier said than done right now. Even if I did find a job minimum wage is not enough to support my family. What more could I expect without an education (I hate it when my parents are right).

Here is my problem. I want to be a paralegal!!!! That is why I am in school, but I am going to have to work in the mean time, so what do I do?

Option #3

I continue my education and work harder than ever to make good grades so that when I graduate I will be able to tell prospective employers that I graduated with honors. That gives me an advantage over other recent graduates who may interview for the same position, but it doesn’t create a job for me where none exists.

Hmmm, how can I create a job for myself? The answer was staring me in the face all along…..I create a job for myself! I want to be a paralegal more than anything, but I am also a good baker. I previously had a small business of my own baking cakes for kids birthday parties (friends and family mostly), and I did pretty well. So I enrolled in an entrepreneurship course, which is one of my electives for my degree, and here we go. Each posting after this will be about the things I learn and the path that I chose to take as I work toward opening my own Specialty Bakery.