Making the Jump: A new blog about making career changes for lawyers

I learned of this new lawyer career blog when the blogger Karen Eaton today linked to a post of mine.

Her first post:

Lawyers and Career Changes: How I Hope to Help Through This Blog

December 4, 2007 – 11:27 pm | by keaton

When I began the slow process of career change about a year ago, I didn’t think that I had anything useful to say to lawyers contemplating career change. For the most part, I felt disillusioned, frustrated and alone. Some days, I still feel that way, especially since I have not completely identified my next steps. But, after a year of significant change in my life, including a new marriage and a new transitional job, I hope that my personal experiences will help me to produce content that will both help and inspire other lawyers who are contemplating or in the midst of a career change.

There are numerous resources out there for lawyers frustrated with their current career paths. Indeed, it sometimes seems like an entire industry of career coaches, counselors, and career-focused authors exist to help lawyers exit the practice of law. I hold no expectation for adding myself to their ranks, at least professionally. Instead, I hope to simply add to the conversation regarding the other career opportunities available to lawyers, and to meet other lawyers who have traveled the path I am now taking. Along the way, I hope to discover and clarify my own path and to gain confidence in my choices.

I have put her blog in my reader and look forward to reading more of her posts about lawyers and their career changes.

Note (added December 5, 2007, 7:40 PM Mountain): Oh, the mysteries of blogging technology. Because Eaton did not include an e-mail address or a trackback function on her blog, I used her contact form and got this message:

Error 403

We're sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /contact/ on this server.

Your Internet Protocol address is listed on a blacklist of addresses involved in malicious or illegal activity. See the listing below for more details on specific blacklists and removal procedures.

Your technical support key is: [xxxxxxxxxxxx]

You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.

If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact makingthejump at makingthejump.net and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.

When I clicked on the link for "fix this problem yourself" I got this:

Technical Support

Your request was intercepted by security software which protects the Web site you visited from malicious activity, such as hackers, spam and viruses. We apologize for the inconvenience, but your request matched a profile of suspicious activity. This problem is usually quite easy to fix.

Your computer's IP address was determined to have recently sent spam or engaged in malicious activity as reported by a third-party monitoring service. This means your computer is most likely infected with viruses or other malicious software. See below for more information and removal instructions.

Your request was blocked because of malicious automated requests received from your computer's IP address.

This problem may be caused by viruses or spyware on your computer, or by malicious software that pretends to be anti-virus or anti-spyware software. Ensure that you have REAL anti-virus and anti-spyware software on your computer, that they are kept up-to-date, and that you have run a full system scan using each tool. Once your system is cleaned of viruses and spyware, please try your request again.

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Blacklist Reason(s):

If the above suggestions fail to resolve the problem, click Back and contact the e-mail address you were given for further assistance.

Anyone understand what is resulting in these messages? I have never run into anything like this before. Both puzzling and frustrating when you cannot contact a fellow blogger.

Comments

[Karen Eaton]

Hi Stephanie

Thanks for introducing my new blog on your blog. Your blog contains great content and I enjoy reading it.

I was perplexed by your inability to see my blog last night - until I realized that it was a badly-behaving Wordpress plugin called Bad Behavior. The developer fixed the plugin and a new version should work fine!

Thanks again for stopping by.