veiled4allah: lessons learned

I've been posting up a storm at my Kucinich blog today. It looks like I was right that FirstEnergy Corporation is at the center of the blackout scandal. I'm now starting to see stories in the mainstream media pulling together the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant scandal, the pollution violations, and the other evidence of a long history of cutting corners and outright malfeasance that I posted about last Friday (I like to tell myself that I scooped the media on this, but who am I kidding? I'm just a C-list blogger at best).

Kucinich is getting a lot of media coverage that's quite separate from the regular campaign coverage as people realize he's got the goods on FirstEnergy, and that means plenty of updates for me to post over at Muslims For Kucinich.


On the personal front, I'll be going in to NWIRP tomorrow morning to learn more about the volunteer position they've offered me. It took a little longer than expected to set it up since the legal director had to be in court on short notice late last week and wasn't able to get back to me until today. I expect that as free help, I'll end up doing my share of clerical tasks. But I hope that I'll be able to gain knowledge about immigration law and get some substantive legal experience. Most importantly, I hope to make contacts who may know of paid employment in the field. If I can get a job out of this, I'll gladly file papers, lol!

I've been thinking about when I graduated from college eight years ago. People gave me lots of good advice, but of course I was 22 and was sure I knew better than them. This time I'm doing it right, building up a solid resume step by step, networking, and most of all being pro-active. I was very shy when I was younger and very hesitant of putting myself forward to people I didn't know. I never would have gotten either my internship position or this volunteer position back then, because I wouldn't have gone out there and made those opportunities for myself. I didn't think I could, so I wouldn't bother to try.

I guess that some people have it all figured out from early on and others, like me, take a bit longer to get it together, lol.