Hi everyone! I just wanted to remind you all that you can still bite your tongue while eating. This is proof that even if you have literal decades of doing something daily, you can still make mistakes. So don’t be so hard on yourself if you make mistakes! 💜

Anyone else still gets impostor syndrome (even with several years experience in software engineering)? Any tips you use to overcome it?

Someone gave me hope with Diclegis after vitamin B6/unisom were not helping. But this doesn’t help either. Hope Zofran helps, please send prayers my way.

Zoom Passover Seder plans? What are you all doing?

Anyone want to swap Airbnb style their miami /Miami Beach place for my 17th floor chelsea doorman building near the highline ? Looking to do an upcoming weekend soon

I recently moved to the area and I heard about ketchup chips. I had some for the first time night, and I have to saw they weren't what I was expecting, lol

Been crying every night for the past week. I feel incredibly alone (28 yr old single female). I think this might be my first time in life going through depresssion. Any advice?

Best place for some authentic Indian food?

Diagnosed with ADHD at 40. Tried Vyvanse for a couple of months. It works in terms of depriving grogginess, afternoon post meal crash, and suppressing appetite (at times).

However, I still needed help planning/prioritizing my day,  listening and active note taking, and keeping myself accountable. So decided to replace meds with coffee. Also, the fact that most people on meds had to progressively increase their medication over time did not sit well with me. (cont'd)

Spun out at the race track and hit the wall. Might be time for a new hobby-- suggestions?

I feel like a lot of the discourse about pharmacists lately ignores that we are often just as informed or even more informed about the drugs physicians are handing out than they are. When it comes to the effects of medication we are without a doubt the best informed, period. Why is there this stigma that we want to prevent people from getting what they need?

Which anime character do you see yourself the most in? Why?

Anyone want to catch the game at a bar?

Seeking recs: San Francisco (downtown) mid-week outdoor lunch options for a business lunch?

Spent in day on YouTube watching AE tuts... imported or domestic?

DNA tests -fellow desis, requesting everyone here to get them done and build up the Desi reference database. Had a 23 and me test done recently, result was 100% South Asian -duh.

Anyone know a good personal trainer for body transformation in Atlanta?

Hi, good Indian Restaurants in Austin recommendations. I like spicy food, I am new to Austin. Thanks!

Does anyone know of any companies with good HR training programs? I really want to learn and grow into my HR career while working

Is it good to change from FPNA profile to RTR

I'm urgently looking for job opportunities in pentesting and red teaming.
My YOE is 1yr and looking to target companies Deloitte USI, Fintech organisation and Product Based companies.

Holy shit I took such a big dump

There's a special place in hell for able-bodied people who stand on moving walkways and take up the aisle

Do we have a collective disconnect at Deloitte India in the last week of December similar to Deloitte USI?

Acceptable times to wear a backpack: In high school. when hiking, at the gym. Unacceptable times to wear a backpack: To/in the office.

Follow up etiquette advice needed (public relations industry) : hey everyone- needed some advice on if it’s appropriate to leverage offers and everything within the PR digital industry. I’m expecting an offer soon with a firm, and I’m in the last stage at another. Is it appropriate to send an email to firm one telling them I’m in final stages with another and asking where I stand to maybe get an offer faster? Any insight would be great!

Anyone familiar with the Technical Consultant role at Google? Any reviews?

Thomas J. Watson (IBM) said "the way to succeed is to double your failure rate" and that's always stuck with me

Are there any brands I should be taking advantage of when I tour Spain and Portugal this fall? I’d like to get a new purse and maybe shoes/belt and want to work the exchange rate and VAT

Any suggestion for real time brainstorming / whiteboarding tool, for an online meeting of about 5-6 people?

Anyone here own a car? Live in Williamsburg and have always owned a car my life until moving here. I’m a car enthusiast so it will only be for pleasure purposes/weekend drives. What’s your experience been?

Digital nomads? I have enough for coastfire and was thinking of bouncing around and teaching English online to stay afloat. Opinions?

How do you handle micro managers? I’m a second year transactional associate and for the most part the partners and senior associates I work for trust me to get the work done. But this one guy is constantly checking up on me, asking for status of deliverables long before the deadlines he gave me, and just generally pestering me on everything I do. I am going to go insane if don’t figure out a way to stop this.

Spun out at the race track and hit the wall. Might be time for a new hobby-- suggestions?

I’m looking at lateral offers from Gunderson and Goodwin (both east coast). I want to focus on VC/EC clients. I know both are well known in the area, but which is better? I know Gunderson is known for more early stage work, but is there a benefit to being at a full service firm like Goodwin when I know that what I’m looking for will be at Gunderson?

How many billable hours do you aim for per month? Thinking of lateraling to a firm with no official hours target and wondering what I should be aiming for - is 170/mo (2000 per year) acceptable? Don’t want to burn out but also don’t want to get fired lol. I also understand there’s little control over how much I’ll work but just wondering what y’all think is good enough.

How do you all reconcile your current very high salaries with living a normal lifestyle? For example, my spouse is in big law and I make 25% of that salary (also a lawyer). Presumably, if the spouse leaves big law, there would be a massive drop in salary. We want to buy a forever home. With our current income, the homes we’ve been eyeing are a joke (so cheap) but with 2x MY current income (assuming spouse leaves big law), the house is a stretch. What to do…

Junior associate here. Almost a month since I started. Transactional group. I am still going days where I don’t bill a single minute. Is this worrisome? Sometimes I bill 5 hours in a day, but it’s rare.

I’m staffed on 2/3 deals, but they havent kicked off yet. Should I be worried?

Trying to decide exit plan. 3rd yr doing insurance coverage litigation, but not sure if I can spin that into in house or a solo gig that won’t be too much of a pay cut at some point (sole breadwinner with family here). Any ideas or anecdotes to help inspire the next steps?

If you’re delinquent on an internal deadline, what is the best way to handle or say to the partner after already apologizing?

Started in BL as a midlevel two weeks back and had a pre planned vacation which I’ve let anyone who I’m working with know about (in addition to letting the firm know before I started). Still feel like I am setting myself back - I have also let everyone know I am available in case needed and offered to help in any way I can but I haven’t offered to work through the vacation. Anything else I can do or am I good?

Would Littler or Jackson Lewis pay a signing bonus to an attorney with a few years experience? If so, roughly how much? (SoCal office)

Decision - I was out the door of my nationwide ins dfense firm. Was going to top local firm with a lot more clout where everything would be private pay and I’d be more on bigger exposure cases. However, my firm outmatched the new firm, made a much better bonus structure, and said I could do more work with their complex bus lit group. I’d still likely do about 50 percent ins defense but I really like the partners I work for, and I handle own cases/take depos, and get autonomy. Am I right to stay?

What's the number one reason somebody is rejected after lateral callbacks?

Is the counsel title another version of non equity partner?

For those of you who have taken mental health or a similar medical leave, how long did you take? Debating between requesting 2 or 3 months but not sure if too long.

What practice group is the “easiest”? Easiest in learning curve, easiest in day to day, easiest to understand, easiest to be interested in, easiest work, easiest going interactions, etc.?

Just came across a position on a firm’s website that requires a rare language skill that I have and that I’m otherwise qualified for. I don’t want to just submit an application online because I’ve been doing that for a while and I feel like I’m just screaming into the void. Is there any other way to apply to this position? I was thinking about reaching out to someone within the practice but not sure how appropriate/acceptable that would be. Any advice would be really helpful.

What’s the typical ramp up period for a first year? I’m lucky to hit a few billable hours each day. Started in September.

Any recommendations for healthy snacks at work?

Best way to send cold applications to biglaw firms? Feel like the portals/career emails are flooded 24/7.

Does anyone use Disco?