Pioneer Craft Hour: A Telephone Conversation Juxtaposed with B&W Photographs

I worked with a job placement specialist a little more than a year ago when I was trying to find a job that would keep me in DC. She and I talked again last week. The doubt produced by that conversation stands in reassuring contrast to the determined first photographs I took with my BlackBird Fly in New York.

Telephone Conversation with Job Placement Specialist

Specialist: You’re not really going to UDC, are you?
Me: I really am. I did apply to other schools but only as a plan B, C & D.

Specialist: We throw away resumes that list UDC as an educational institution.
Me: Do you mean the University or the Law School?

Specialist: They’re not one and the same?
Me: The University may not have a good reputation, but the Law School has an amazing clinical program. It’s perfect for the kind of public interest work I want to do.

Specialist: I dunno. It’d be a waste of your talent and dynamic personality.
Me: Thanks, but I’ll find a way to make it work.