Finding employment in New York City?

Question

I'm going to graduate from the University of California, Berkeley soon with double degrees in Economics and History. My ultimate goal is to go to law school, but I want to work on the East Coast for a couple years.

Any advice on what kind of employment I should get? Best companies? What can I do with my degrees? What is it like living/working in NYC?

Answer 1

NYC isn't a place for someone that doesn't know what they want to do already. You really better decide that before you even think about living there, or at least get an open return ticket home.

Your degrees only suggest teaching or secretarial work. If you have a solid background using computers, you might be able to fluff your resume enough to find work as a Technical Writer, but you better be able to do the work.

If you really want to go to law school, get some work in the legal field. Title research, secretary, process server, government offices, something in the field, and if you're lucky, close to what you want to do with a law degree.

You'll be better off for now taking the work you want and accepting the place it is found than deciding you want to be in a given town and taking the work that's available, especially if that town is NYC.