Biglaw Burnout

HappyAlumnus
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:45:36 +0000

BigLawLawyer, again, “there’s no easy way”. Your friends who do not strive and who work 9 to 5 may have “good houses in a cheap area”, but their bank accounts are small; they may not work as hard, but they likely don’t have jobs that take the same intellectual stimulation that law will when you become more senior, and they probably don’t make as much or have the same range of opportunities that you do and/or will.

When I was at your level of seniority and was also in a big firm, I thought as you did- as did everyone else I knew in the same situation; your statements are exactly what every other junior/midlevel associate in Biglaw says. Once you have additional work experiences in other fields, you’ll see things differently.