Is Corporate Law worth it?

Greybeard
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:49:31 +0000

“Judging by the titles of so many threads, I don’t think any type of law is worth it.”

I’d like to bring up something I don’t see being discussed that much this board. But one thing I’ve found as I’ve progressed through my career as an attorney is that my job satisfaction has increased over the years.

I’m an in-house attorney at a Fortune 1000 company, and spend my days drafting and negotiating sales contracts. My work load is somewhat cyclical: it builds over the course of each fiscal quarter, and over each fiscal quarter to the end of the year. I’m astoundingly busy at times, particularly during the last month of our third and fourth fiscal quarters every year, when I find myselg juggling a dozen or more active negotiations at once. The stress level can be really high. There are thousands of people depending on me, and millions of dollars at stake. And I absolutely love it. I’ve honed my skills for a long period of time, and I’ve gotten to be really good at what I do. My clients love me, and they’re not shy about letting me know it. At the end of a really long, intense day, I leave the office with a powerful sense of euphoria at what I’ve accomplished.

It’s worth it in ways I couldn’t have imagined early in my career.

It’s not just the extrinsic rewards that keep attorneys working long hours - the intrisic rewards can be powerful, too.