Legal Aid of Western Missouri’s Post

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I like that. I feel like I'm always representing the good guy in every single case I do the health insurance. Just kidding. It's the people. My favorite thing about working for legal aid is the ability to help so many people resolve their legal issues. The health insurance. It's really good. It's really great health insurance. I love the work, life balance. I can come to legal aid every day, give it my all. And then at the end of the day, I go home and take care of my family and get my kids to practice or activities and there are no questions asked. So a lot of legal work, you know, you go out and you draft documents and at the end of the day, there's nothing tangible that you've done. But in our work, you can drive around in the community and actually see the fruits of our labor. I think if you care about other people and making a positive impact in your community, this is a really great place for you. You get to come to work every day and have the opportunity to to positively impact someone else's life. If you're considering having a career at legal aid, I would say you should definitely come. If you're someone who wants to work in an environment with people who are friendly and working toward a common goal of helping the community, do your research about the inequities that exist and if those spoil your blood, definitely Legal aid is one way to impact that. There's lots of things to learn, and there's lots of different people to get to. You know and just know that it is a great place to fit in and that you will find, you find, you will find yourself sitting in there. I would say if you have a heart for service, for serving your community, this is really the job for you. Once I heard what Legal Aid did, what its mission was, what its vision was, I knew that there was no place else that I could work, that this was it for me. Throughout my professional life of over 20 years, I have worked at many different places, including other nonprofits and a private law firm, and this was easily, this is easily my favorite job. I felt in other places like I was really working for the company, and here I feel like I'm working. With the clients, I am so excited to come to work every day and feel like I'm doing something that is doing something good for the world. I get so much more than I give here at Legal Aid. I like there were a nonprofit that would help low income senior citizens, those in really in need and just everything that we do, especially to help in our unit to help people get into homes. So I've I've been at Legal Aid since I was an intern in law school. I love the environment here. I loved again my colleagues and then our clients. I loved getting that interaction and getting into see my work affect other people's lives. Come work with us. Come work with us.