Biglaw Burnout

HappyAlumnus
Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:04:00 +0000

BiglawLawyer, no, law school costs haven’t quadrupled; they’ve just more than doubled. The COL in NYC has not doubled in NYC in the past 10 years. Tax rates applicable to me when I made $83k were higher then than they are now (post-Bush tax cuts). So all of those statements are demonstrably false.

Tell my relative who is 44 and who has a net worth of about $9 million that “the stress is almost non-existent” due to having “so much money” and having “to do little, if really no, work at all” and see how he responds. He works like a dog and is extremely stressed out and faces garbage that I’ve never had to in Biglaw or elsewhere.

Again, there’s no easy way. I’m done responding to your posts. You see life in Biglaw as awful and life outside Biglaw as better. It’s not. There is no easy way; few people have affluent lives without long hours and high stress; every job has downsides; you don’t get something for nothing; and life isn’t easy, period, regardless of what job you have. Once you’ve been through more varied experiences, you’ll learn these lessons. For now, you are naïve and negative.