Does anyone else work as an associate and get random assignments that seem impossible to be useful on? Every single assignment I ever do gets redone. It gets super discouraging and sometimes I wonder what’s the point of my job.

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A partner told me once after he redlined one of my assignments to within an inch of its life that it was much easier for him to revise my draft than start from scratch. In his words, "It's not always wrong, some of it is preference and some of it is info that [I] didn't have." Other times it's just wrong lol. Keep your chin up

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Do you learn anything about how/why they get redone? As long as you can take something away from it, they’re not useless.

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If it’s not like this in the beginning, then start worrying because you aren’t learning. They’re making you better.

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