Month: October 2021
Pivoting to Non-law Jobs (2 Ideas You Can Use Today)
An old law school classmate works at her dream job now. She left her old soul-sucking job at a law firm a few years ago. She was able to leave the law to do work she genuinely enjoys. She doesn’t even mind if she has to stay up until midnight from time to time. Enjoying…
How Being a Lawyer Affects Your Confidence Level
In casual conversation, I caught myself saying something to the effect of “you may be able to…” Being an attorney means CYA (covering your ass) and saying things like “and/or” or “likely” or “appears to” and all these weasel words that give you an out should someone call you out on it (which never happens…but…
Working at 2:40 AM
The firm laptop started its automatic shutdown process because it logs off automatically when it gets too late. I canceled out of the process. What was I doing at this godforsaken hour? There are people out there getting ready to go to the gym at this time! The in-house counsel wanted all these revisions to…