Today was a milestone in my professional life.<\/p>\n
When I first started working as a paralegal, my boss had me apply to be a notary public so that I could notarize his documents.\u00a0 All you have to do in Colorado is fill out an application on the Secretary of State website saying you’ve read the notary handbook, take a quick test, and send them $10.\u00a0 If you actually want to notarize anything, you also have to buy a stamp.\u00a0 You’re also supposed to keep a journal.\u00a0 I’ve always used cheap spiral bound mini notebooks as my journals and bought the cheapest self inking stamps.<\/p>\n
I became a Colorado notary public on December 5, 2005.\u00a0 You have to renew every four years. I figured in four years I’d for sure be doing something else for a living.<\/p>\n
In 2009 I renewed my notary certificate.\u00a0 All that you have to renew is to send in another $10.\u00a0 I was pretty depressed about it.\u00a0 I was still just a paralegal, a job that doesn’t even always require a high school degree.\u00a0 I was working for a firm that did nothing but foreclosures, which I didn’t really mind at all, depressing as that might sound. I liked all of my colleagues.\u00a0 I had a nice office to myself. But the boss was crazy and a tyrant.\u00a0 Berck had been furloughed by the airlines and was on unemployment.\u00a0 We were lucky I still had a job. And I was still working as a paralegal.<\/p>\n
In 2013 I renewed my notary.\u00a0 By then I was working at a firm that did work comp and Social Security disability.\u00a0 I enjoyed the work and liked the two attorneys I worked for.\u00a0 I got along fine with almost all of the staff.\u00a0 My job was a lot less stressful than the last one.\u00a0 Berck had since finished his degree and got a very nicely paying job writing computer code.\u00a0 We’d bought a house the year before and had spent a lot time laying wood flooring and building shelves.\u00a0 Things were pretty good.<\/p>\n
I renewed my notary again today.\u00a0 You can renew it three months before it expires.\u00a0 I ordered a new stamp with my new expiration date (December 5, 2021).\u00a0 I’m on my third journal, I think.\u00a0 I still notarize a lot of stuff at work.\u00a0 I’m now with a new firm, since the sole proprietor of the last one died and the rest of the attorneys decided to make a new firm.\u00a0 I really enjoy my job.\u00a0 I get to help people instead of taking their houses away from them.\u00a0 I work for a fantastic boss, and I think we work really well together.\u00a0 All three of the partners are great and are also good lawyers.\u00a0 I get along great with the other paralegals. I get paid generously.<\/p>\n
I’m still a paralegal.<\/p>\n
And I don’t mind.<\/p>\n
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