My new job

Starting this fall, I will clerk for Judge Esch at the Superior Court of the Second Judicial District in Nome, Alaska. I've never worked so hard to get a job, or have been as happy to have won it.

My wife and I lived in Nome for six years before we moved to Michigan for law school (his) and grad school (hers). We're going home!

The humbling aspect to this is that I'll be taking my legal baby steps in a small town where I know many people. This won't be the first time that I've launched a career in Nome. In fact, it will be the fourth. I was a journalist with The Nome Nugget, Alaska's Oldest Newspaper (1995 - 1997). I went back to school to get my teaching certificate, and ended up managing the Boys & Girls Club (2001 - 2004). I also worked for Wells Fargo as a business banker (2006-07).

Needless to say, I enjoy doing new things. Law school was a long play: I'd always wanted to go, and we had the chance to go to school. I figured that a career in law would be ever changing, which would satisfy my need to always be learning. And, I knew deep down that it was the best fit for me.

Now I need to graduate from law school and pass the bar. And schlep everything back to Alaska.