Have been slow since the Summer (100-120 hour months). Work is starting to pick up, but I have no motivation to do the work anymore. Anyone else have this problem? How did you rebound? I have a mountain of work building and still only bill like 6-7 hours because I get exhausted after that.

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I have struggled with this my whole career. If I start slowing down, it kills my momentum and I find it hard to pick up the pace again. When the work starts piling up, it's easiest to go in baby steps. Once you have billed 6-7 hours in a day, look at your to-do list and see if you can knock off another 10-20 minutes of work - I promise you will feel better just completing at least one additional task (and you may find that you feel like turning to the next one to keep that feeling going). Or, if there are no short tasks, then tell yourself you're just going to start reviewing the next thing on your list for 10 minutes to get familiar with it. When I do that, I usually find myself getting sucked in and spending a lot more than a few minutes on it.

I was let go from my first BL job for low hours. Trust me, you don't want that to happen to you if you can help it.

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Partner was the firm you were let go from bigger than the one you became partner at? I’m thinking it’s sometimes better to go smaller to raise chances of being partner?

Yes - if I get busy after a slow period (especially if the busy is a lot to generally do but nobody breathing down my neck) I find it extremely hard to ramp back up to even 8 billable hour days

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