I would tell him the same thing I have told other college graduates having trouble getting their first job after college: Do some volunteer work for an charitable organization you believe in. You make contacts, have something to put on your resume, and are helping people in need all at the same time. There are people in need of help who have been caught in the bottomless tar pit called our legal system.
You are correct, and that’s exactly what their professors and advisors tell them NOT to do, because “it looks on your resume like you can’t get a job”! Wait, whaaaattt?!? I could not believe it when my college age daughter told me that. She thought it was BS, but that.s what they’re told. You know, by the advisors who have never held a job in the private sector....
Overqualified? By his own words this little princess isn't even qualified to breakdown and pack boxes. Notice how he provides his excuse before revealing his ass-chewing and his closing note. He was law review, so of course he's going to re-invent the simple procedure of breaking down boxes. A grade school drop out could have listened to the simple instruction that I'm sure he was issued and done the job.
Yo, lawgrad, break these empty boxes down and stack them in the dumpster.
Simple one sentence command involving two actions. The assingned task was the simplest one in a retail store, none easier or less demanding.
And lawgrad managed to screw it up. And then wonders why he was slowed talked through the simple procedure again.
Oh, and Mr Overqualified-I-was-on-law-review attended the bottom tier of the fifty top law schools, otherwise he would have been sure to tell us that it was top ten, top twenty and so on.
Kinda sounds like that Obama fellow, (top ten law school, law review) that Val Jarrett and Chris Matthews tell us is overqualified for his job.
The sadder parts involve managers talking to him like he's an idiot. From the blog:
The other day I was in the stock room alone unpacking inventory and I was throwing cardboard boxes into this big dumpster. I wasn't breaking them down because I was going to wait until I was done and then break them all down at the end. A manager came in and f---ing chewed my ass out telling me to never throw boxes in there without breaking them down first. She actually explained to me very slowly that the purpose of breaking down the boxes was so we could fit more boxes in. I was on law review.
I'm still trying to figure out what kind of store hires men to sell cologne. Haven't seen one yet.