From Legal Assistant to Lawyer

After many years of being a legal assistant and taking night school courses, I finally became a lawyer. Now, I knew that I had a lot of work to do. I would need to find a job with a firm and build up my resume. I would need to work 10 times harder than all of the others because I was getting my license to practice law so late in life. And I would need to quit my job as a legal assistant, a job that gave me financial security and structure. But all of the problems and hassles that I was about to face paled in comparison to the fact that I was going to have my own letterhead stationery. It was going to have my name at the top and write things for my own law firm on it. I knew what font I was going to use and the line structure I wanted. I had it all planned out in my head. Strangely, that gave me the courage I needed to start my own small law firm on the East side.