\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

I’m having a hard time finding the will to work hard

I work with some folks who are really into work for the sake...
Duck-like Hissy Fit
  02/02/21
have you ever read the novels of Miss Ayn Rand
Boyish fortuitous meteor gas station
  02/02/21
No. Will those help? I’m serious, I need to learn how...
Duck-like Hissy Fit
  02/02/21
well her main novels (The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged) d...
Boyish fortuitous meteor gas station
  02/02/21
wtf. you decided to create your own irrelevant subthread?
scarlet elastic band toaster
  02/02/21
...
Motley Magenta Azn Pisswyrm
  02/02/21
Shut the fuck up faggot. It's relevant
fishy low-t striped hyena
  02/02/21
...
high-end histrionic legend
  02/02/21
Working hard in the abstract will never motivate anyone sane...
Plum abnormal affirmative action
  02/02/21
These people treat me like a slave and expect me to self-mot...
Duck-like Hissy Fit
  02/02/21
You don't need to put up with that.
Plum abnormal affirmative action
  02/02/21
I need the money and have no other options, so yes, yes I do...
Duck-like Hissy Fit
  02/02/21
You don't need the money: you've decided to subject yourself...
Plum abnormal affirmative action
  02/02/21
we're ultimately hunter-gatherers who are meant to do 3-4 ho...
Dark Painfully Honest Hospital Persian
  02/02/21
(Unabomber)
onyx titillating friendly grandma personal credit line
  02/02/21
...
Yellow glittery water buffalo
  02/02/21
...
fiercely-loyal cheese-eating useless brakes feces
  02/02/21
...
Yellow glittery water buffalo
  02/02/21
...
vermilion shrine laser beams
  02/02/21
sleep in your car for 2 weeks and live on $10 a day. that wi...
up-to-no-good foreskin trailer park
  02/02/21
I’m inhouse and it’s insane how little work I do
crimson therapy
  02/02/21
It's exceptionally hard when you're a lawyer. At least for m...
Racy Address Regret
  02/02/21
The hardest, most tedious work just stays on your desk for a...
Duck-like Hissy Fit
  02/02/21
I know lawyers who come in, close their office door, and gri...
Racy Address Regret
  02/02/21
they're poasting.
Plum abnormal affirmative action
  02/02/21
...
razzmatazz mentally impaired tanning salon
  02/03/21
There are people like that in society. It's better you acce...
fiercely-loyal cheese-eating useless brakes feces
  02/02/21
...
Racy Address Regret
  02/02/21
...
fiercely-loyal cheese-eating useless brakes feces
  02/02/21
The dignity of work is an American myth.
vermilion shrine laser beams
  02/02/21
you are simply realizing that the protestant work ethic is a...
filthy free-loading nursing home digit ratio
  02/02/21
If you have to work to keep living in the office you'll bust...
Galvanic fat ankles
  02/02/21
hype house
fuchsia domesticated clown mediation
  02/02/21
...
fiercely-loyal cheese-eating useless brakes feces
  02/02/21
...
Galvanic fat ankles
  02/03/21
...
Yellow glittery water buffalo
  02/03/21
Also, you're burnt out. Take a break.
Plum abnormal affirmative action
  02/02/21
(not a lawyer)
Racy Address Regret
  02/02/21
False. I know he won't take my advice, but it really is poss...
Plum abnormal affirmative action
  02/03/21
...
scarlet elastic band toaster
  02/03/21
aderall+lunesta (repeat every day for the rest of your life)
sadistic copper bawdyhouse weed whacker
  02/03/21
...
Cracking Iridescent Spot
  01/25/26


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 8:44 PM
Author: Duck-like Hissy Fit

I work with some folks who are really into work for the sake of work. You know the whole concept of “work ethic.”

But, it’s hard for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41875683)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 8:45 PM
Author: Boyish fortuitous meteor gas station

have you ever read the novels of Miss Ayn Rand

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41875685)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 8:47 PM
Author: Duck-like Hissy Fit

No. Will those help?

I’m serious, I need to learn how to just be one of those robots who revels in the pleasures of work for work’s sake. That is the expectation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41875700)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 8:49 PM
Author: Boyish fortuitous meteor gas station

well her main novels (The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged) definitely have lots of pro-productivity ideas. i don't know if they'll help your specific situation, since i don't know your background, what you do or what your attitude towards your work is, but they might help and are worth reading in their own right

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41875716)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:08 PM
Author: scarlet elastic band toaster

wtf. you decided to create your own irrelevant subthread?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876539)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:46 PM
Author: Motley Magenta Azn Pisswyrm



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876756)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:47 PM
Author: fishy low-t striped hyena

Shut the fuck up faggot. It's relevant

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876764)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:49 PM
Author: high-end histrionic legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876786)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 8:50 PM
Author: Plum abnormal affirmative action

Working hard in the abstract will never motivate anyone sane. Man needs meaning to thrive!

You can raise a dog with food

You can keep a servant with money

But only purpose will motivate a man.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41875728)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 9:22 PM
Author: Duck-like Hissy Fit

These people treat me like a slave and expect me to self-motivate myself to hang around and endure the mistreatment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41875929)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:04 PM
Author: Plum abnormal affirmative action

You don't need to put up with that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876516)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:16 PM
Author: Duck-like Hissy Fit

I need the money and have no other options, so yes, yes I do. I deserve it for being me. And that’s okay. I can accept it. I just need to learn how to smile and dance and tell a funny joke while I do the ol’ soft shoe in the corner like Mr Bojangles

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876582)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:27 PM
Author: Plum abnormal affirmative action

You don't need the money: you've decided to subject yourself to this for this amount of money. You can quit. Even with no plan, you can quit and then figure something out. It's not worth it. If it's now or later, do it now. You only get one life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876653)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 9:23 PM
Author: Dark Painfully Honest Hospital Persian

we're ultimately hunter-gatherers who are meant to do 3-4 hours of intense yet stimulating work in a close-knit organic peer group early in the day and fuck off for the rest of it. we never biologically caught up to the world we made.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41875935)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:10 PM
Author: onyx titillating friendly grandma personal credit line

(Unabomber)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876547)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:17 PM
Author: Yellow glittery water buffalo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876587)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:48 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal cheese-eating useless brakes feces



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876773)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:16 PM
Author: Yellow glittery water buffalo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876586)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:47 PM
Author: vermilion shrine laser beams



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876763)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 9:26 PM
Author: up-to-no-good foreskin trailer park

sleep in your car for 2 weeks and live on $10 a day. that will motivate you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41875948)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:11 PM
Author: crimson therapy

I’m inhouse and it’s insane how little work I do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876557)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:30 PM
Author: Racy Address Regret

It's exceptionally hard when you're a lawyer. At least for me it is.

I like sales and did it before going to law school. The motivation to work is very directly connected to your income in a tangible way: make the sale, get paid. Make more sales, get paid more.

What incentive do I have to review some dense, boring as fuck legal document at 10pm and then discuss it with others? It's an atrocious way to live and I am completely unmotivated to do it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876665)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:33 PM
Author: Duck-like Hissy Fit

The hardest, most tedious work just stays on your desk for a week, then 2 weeks. It just sits.

It’s miserable coming in everyday and seeing that albatross sitting there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876681)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:36 PM
Author: Racy Address Regret

I know lawyers who come in, close their office door, and grind out work unflinchingly for hours. It blows my mind. Just hours on end alone in a room doing an incredibly boring, tedious, and somehow stressful job.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876701)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:45 PM
Author: Plum abnormal affirmative action

they're poasting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876748)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2021 12:06 AM
Author: razzmatazz mentally impaired tanning salon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876868)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:49 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal cheese-eating useless brakes feces

There are people like that in society. It's better you accept that they exist now in order to fight them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876785)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:51 PM
Author: Racy Address Regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876801)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:48 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal cheese-eating useless brakes feces



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876782)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:47 PM
Author: vermilion shrine laser beams

The dignity of work is an American myth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876769)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:50 PM
Author: filthy free-loading nursing home digit ratio

you are simply realizing that the protestant work ethic is an outdated calvinist intention. acts of service > working hard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876791)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:50 PM
Author: Galvanic fat ankles

If you have to work to keep living in the office you'll bust your ass and enjoy it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876792)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:52 PM
Author: fuchsia domesticated clown mediation

hype house

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876803)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:52 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal cheese-eating useless brakes feces



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876808)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2021 12:41 AM
Author: Galvanic fat ankles



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876973)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2021 1:00 AM
Author: Yellow glittery water buffalo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41877006)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:52 PM
Author: Plum abnormal affirmative action

Also, you're burnt out. Take a break.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876812)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 2nd, 2021 11:56 PM
Author: Racy Address Regret

(not a lawyer)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876826)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2021 12:10 AM
Author: Plum abnormal affirmative action

False. I know he won't take my advice, but it really is possible to set boundaries. If you're really good and have high hours.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876885)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2021 12:44 AM
Author: scarlet elastic band toaster



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41876976)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2021 1:03 AM
Author: sadistic copper bawdyhouse weed whacker

aderall+lunesta (repeat every day for the rest of your life)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#41877013)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 25th, 2026 2:55 PM
Author: Cracking Iridescent Spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4756606&forum_id=2Firm#49617688)