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Before I became an attorney I worked as a materials laborer (aka a hod carrier). It was union and truly back breaking work. I'd have these terrible days where we'd do a double shift moving insulation up staircases in the Central Valley in California and spend all day with my shirts filled with insulation in 100 degree rooms with no hvac.
I am a top producer at my law firm. litigation all day. I love the opportunities being a lawyer provides to my family and will be a lawyer till I cant anymore. But, I'd be lying if I said there wasn't something nice about a sort of consistent and mindless job with a predictable set of tasks every day. Plus, we got to smoke cigarettes at work and listen to Slayer. Oh well, I at least have a nice house.
I appreciate when a fellow lawyer is also a fellow metal head.
To quit litigation altogether. I think it all just hit me hard as I was coming upon the holidays already struggling wit the the fact I couldn’t be with loved ones. For those of you who have been here, is this what it looks like when you finally decide to leave the unpredictable roller coaster of litigation? Like one day you just feel you can’t keep doing it or have I hit a wall that I will overcome. I feel ready to leave lit behind (not the practice altogether but just litigation). If you’ve been here or somewhere similar can you please share your experience and where you went from there?
For me it was when I decided that I really wasn’t willing to make the sacrifices you need to make to do high stakes trial work. It really came to a head during a case a few years back. The parties refused to settle a case that everyone agreed should settle but wouldn’t because the principals had a nice little pissing match going on. So I ended up doing a 6 week trial away from home, where I spent nearly every day just waiting to get home, win or lose. I just realized that unless you really love doing this, the money isn’t worth the hell you have to go through. So the OP should decide whether he/she actually loves doing this. If you do, the hours work themselves out. If you really don’t like it don’t put yourself through it.