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re: OT lawyers. ..Ever think about hanging it up?
Posted on 8/20/14 at 10:11 am to slam627
Posted on 8/20/14 at 10:11 am to slam627
Nah, it's pretty cool. I don't work with a bunch of screamers or assholes though. I know they exist, and I can see how working in one of those environments would turn you off the profession. I also think lawyers suffer from the grass is greener disease - no jobs are 100% sunshine and rainbows.
This is the only part I consistently don't like - like when I'm weeding the garden on a Saturday morning and thinking "OMG it would be far more efficient for me to to be billing and pay someone else to do this." The problem with that line of thought is that its logical conclusion is that you should be billing 100% of the time; because nothing you do in normal life generates more value than one billable hour.
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Maybe it is the your-time-is-money aspect of being a lawyer, but in my unhappiest times I was always thinking about what I wasn't doing when I was busy doing other things.
This is the only part I consistently don't like - like when I'm weeding the garden on a Saturday morning and thinking "OMG it would be far more efficient for me to to be billing and pay someone else to do this." The problem with that line of thought is that its logical conclusion is that you should be billing 100% of the time; because nothing you do in normal life generates more value than one billable hour.
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Posted on 8/20/14 at 10:28 am to Cold Cous Cous
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nothing you do in normal life generates more value than one billable hour
Right. The shift for me came when I realized that while nothing will generate more "money" than one billable hour, nearly everything will generate more value.
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