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did getting biglaw increase your happiness?
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 5:36 PM Author: disrespectful den international law enforcement agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958202) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 5:40 PM Author: Jade razzle-dazzle crackhouse ape I was happy that I wouldn't have to go on anymore CB's when the firm I wanted came through with an offer. Then I didn't care. Then I was happy as an SA for obvious reasons. Then during 3L I was unhappy because I knew my life was about to end. Once I started I became even unhappier. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958220) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:20 PM Author: Cyan Center Knife wait, are you in biglaw currently? were you laid off or are you still currently in? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958557) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:39 PM Author: Jade razzle-dazzle crackhouse ape Currently a midlevel in biglaw. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958699) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:40 PM Author: Excitant stage why don't you do something else (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958710) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:46 PM Author: Jade razzle-dazzle crackhouse ape I will. It's my resolution for the next decade. I am putting in applications for med school post-bacc programs and then I will need to decide whether to do that or try to find an area of law I can tolerate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958743) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:54 PM Author: Excitant stage what area of law are you in now? why does it suck? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958778) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 8:48 PM Author: Jade razzle-dazzle crackhouse ape Transactional at a V20. Won't say more because I don't want to risk outing. I dislike the actual work and I hate the work environment. Basically I don't like anything about it other than the money, but I hate NYC and I can't even afford a pimped out apartment like I could elsewhere in the country. So I have nothing to show for it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15959367) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 11:25 PM Author: Amber aggressive native police squad I let out an audible gasp at the thought of a midlevel Biglaw associate quitting to go to a post-bacc med program. You must really hate being a lawyer to want to put yourself through that much more school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15960815) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 11:32 PM Author: Jade razzle-dazzle crackhouse ape I live pretty frugally and didn't have much debt to begin with. I'm pretty sure that if I lived in ARE country, my quality of life would actually be better on a resident's salary than it is currently in NYC on a biglaw salary.
The bottom line is that there is no future for me at my firm. I'm well liked and I doubt I'd get laid off anytime soon, but I'm not some superstar certain to make partner. Maybe there's some element of the grass is always greener at work, but I see my doctor friends and they seem legitimately happy. I will obviously put a lot of thought into this before pulling the trigger but now is the time to start getting out apps for 2011-2012 and I'd like to have the option available. |
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Date: September 4th, 2010 12:51 AM Author: frum vigorous orchestra pit yarmulke no offense, but you're a god-damn retard if you're seriusly thinking about going back to school at this point in your life.
you're obviously a smart guy, there's a million things that you could do outside of the law |
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Date: September 4th, 2010 1:00 AM Author: Jade razzle-dazzle crackhouse ape I want to do something I enjoy. If you have good ideas, I am open to anything. I would open a taco truck if I thought I'd make a good loving and be happy. So this is not about prestige whoring. It's purely about happiness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15961556) |
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Date: September 4th, 2010 2:01 AM Author: glassy telephone place of business "I want to do something I enjoy." Do you think your grandfathers said this while they were getting shot at by nazis. Go fuck yourself. You have no clue what real work is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15961847) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 5:40 PM Author: metal arousing party of the first part hospital right up until the moment i started (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958228) |
Date: September 3rd, 2010 5:41 PM Author: histrionic hyperventilating stock car NOT getting biglaw makes me want to killself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958233) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 5:41 PM Author: alcoholic garrison double fault Getting no-offered from biglaw threw me into a year-long depression that destroyed my GPA and social life, imperiled my health, and caused me to become addicted to an internet chatblog frequented by racists.
Getting into a top law school made me extremely happy because I assumed that I was now guaranteed to make $160k in three years. |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:32 PM Author: Rose startling locus You went to HLS, right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958657) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:49 PM Author: Sienna adventurous hairy legs toilet seat he did and still got no offered. can you imagine what kind of a tool this guy must be IRL? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958761) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:50 PM Author: alcoholic garrison double fault (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958764) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 8:37 PM Author: talented private investor (Estrada) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15959312) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 11:25 PM Author: splenetic cuckold dude getting no offered RUINED HIS SOCIAL LIFE he cannot possibly be a tool (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15960806) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 5:42 PM Author: aromatic insecure windowlicker public bath Yes. Without biglaw I would be an alcoholic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958239) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 5:42 PM Author: Racy heaven since ive started, im happy to be able to pay my bills. apart from that, no. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958242) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 11:23 PM Author: stirring degenerate I have decided there are plenty of other ways to pay bills and this just isn't worth it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15960789) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 5:42 PM Author: thirsty ebony parlor toaster No, it decreased it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958243) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:25 PM Author: Bronze Dilemma Depressive Yes, significantly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958593) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:41 PM Author: Canary Bbw no; major letdown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958720) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:42 PM Author: Excitant stage describe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958724) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:58 PM Author: Sienna adventurous hairy legs toilet seat *The sense of being alone and isolated in the world
*A new-found grasp or appreciation of one's mortality
*Believing that one's life has no purpose or external meaning |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:44 PM Author: bespoke theater stage money increases my happiness; biglaw is thus far my only conduit to money, so i guess biglaw does increase my overall happiness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958734) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 6:55 PM Author: Excitant stage so going from 100k 45 hours/week to 200k 60 hours/week makes you much happier? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15958784) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 8:44 PM Author: bespoke theater stage that's a nonstarter.
i make $200k/yr working about 40-45 hr/wk in biglaw. |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 8:48 PM Author: Trip Poppy Space Kitty Cat why the fuck would you weigh in on this? your situation has nothing to do with what he is asking
$200k for 40/45 hours a week is incredible by any standard |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 8:50 PM Author: bespoke theater stage lol the pumo above assumes biglaw means $200k at 60 hrs/wk.
75% people in biglaw do not work those sort of hours on a regular basis, particularly in the past few years. my "situation" is the norm. |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 8:52 PM Author: Cocky brunch i hate you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15959390) |
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Date: September 3rd, 2010 11:22 PM Author: Vibrant dull organic girlfriend blood rage seriously? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15960771) |
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Date: September 4th, 2010 1:05 AM Author: galvanic buff regret you bill at 100% effiency? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15961582) |
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Date: September 4th, 2010 2:08 AM Author: Racy heaven this is me too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1413656&forum_id=2#15961881) |