Date: August 12th, 2026 9:27 AM Author: Beady-eyed Pontificating Range
it's way better than having a client call up and say like "hey remember that agreement we signed last year? something came up, can you pull it out and look this up"
i've resigned myself to this as well. i made my choice, it's completely devoid of any meaning, but i am enjoying the lifestyle. it's also getting easier as I move up and my skills become more valuable. i have pretty much given up on making equity partner.
my goal now is to steer my kid into something else. i have been drilling in her since she was young that she is required to open a cafe / art gallery that I can chill at in my old age
Date: August 13th, 2026 5:31 PM Author: Pearl menage
I was at a lunch cafe near some state and city govt buildings recently and there was a table of 3 obese women talking about work drama and it somehow shifted to the Philippines and someone sending money and one boomer lady said "don't we still own that place?" "no" "i thought it was a territory still" "no it's a country they have their own presidents and politicians"
Date: August 13th, 2026 1:11 PM Author: Yapping background story
This poast could have been mine until I experienced the full human centipede version of everything else this chaotic yet somehow dull profession has to offer.
There is a reason white shoe firms did corporate and nothing else. It can be interesting intellectually, the work can be learned, it addresses business directly and you get to work with business people.
Corporate litigation (outside a few specific niches) and corporate compliance and all the other swamplands are absolutely TTT and unworthy of consideration.
Date: August 13th, 2026 4:14 PM Author: embarrassed to the bone onyx preventive strike pistol
100%. If you can get into a corporate practice that deals with commercially relevant items and be a partner of the business it can imo be a cool gig and afford you the ability to work with smart cool people. Also can set you up for interesting in-house legal jobs or blended commercial / legal roles. If you are doing litigation or get into a pure compliance (read: cost center / annoying BS role) you will be in the case of litigation pigeonholed and work with insufferable lawyer types or in the case of compliance deal with dull back office gargoyle types. Also regarding the latter compliance type roles at large enterprises are totally thankless jobs and you are viewed as a cost and drag on the business.
Date: August 13th, 2026 4:40 PM Author: Histrionic step-uncle's house mad cow disease
as if litigators are some alpha ppl doing actual COURTROOM DEBATING?
rofl, all law is bullshit. corporate actually seems better than dealing with litigation bullshit, which is literally retarded garbage that makes little sense
Date: August 13th, 2026 5:29 PM Author: Histrionic step-uncle's house mad cow disease
i shld have done corporate, i was so naive and stupid, but it all worked out i guess, think its veddy hard to go solo as corporate unless u doing like tax or something
Date: August 13th, 2026 5:13 PM Author: embarrassed to the bone onyx preventive strike pistol
Litigation is Hebraic, corporate is goy-coded. Litigation is a bunch of you know whos trying to poke each other in the eye on Talmudic bs while corporate is a bunch of chill bros working constructively to get a deal done. You should’ve gone for corporate.