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No one feels excited about this bullshit.
By enjoying life outside of work and realizing your work pays for it. It’s one way to be grateful (and hence excited) for what your job offers.
People don’t seem to understand this. Most people have jobs that they hate. The only difference we (hopefully) have is that we get paid a lot so we can do stuff outside of work that we like. A lot of people don’t have that luxury at all.
Of course, ideally you do have a job that you care about and like, but the money and the possibilities money opens up is a great thing in of itself.
I've found you really have to like your practice area. After that, it helps to have a nice group of colleagues to work with. But I'd be lying if I said it was always easy.
How?
Honestly, I don’t. I don’t mind my practice area and generally like my coworkers. Happy with my pay and boss. But, it’s just a job. I’ve given up on being excited or passionate about my work and am content with being content.
There is no excitement. You are making money for other people in exchange for a small portion of that so you can pay to live. Start seeking happiness elsewhere and a new job.
In tech and I feel the same way..
I totally feel this. I have changed jobs a few times but ultimately realized I just don’t like being an attorney. However, I finally make enough money to allow me to do more outside of work and travel a little. I’m trying to plan more trips or events throughout the year so I have something to look forward to.
In investment banking and I second this!
This thread is SO depressing. It reminds me of a scene from the novel ‘Bel Ami’ by the French writer Guy de Maupassant. The book charts the life of a young man in fashionable Parisian society of the latter part of the nineteenth century. He is a handsome young military officer who works his way up the social chain by making love to well-connected women. One night he bumps into a tramp and asks how he came to be living on the streets. ‘I was a poet and then I was a lawyer and then I was a tramp’ says the old man. ‘How can you have been a poet and then a lawyer?’ asks our hero. ‘Quite simple’ says the tramp: ‘In every lawyer there is the shattered remnant of a poet’.
Look, the worst thing about the law is working for some greedy partner who thinks he is God. The best thing is that no two cases are ever the same. Get a grip and work towards being your own boss. Everyone needs a lawyer sometime and people buy people so clients will hire you if they like you. That’s what makes law fun in later years. Just use where you are now to gain experience but get out there, meet people and make connections.
That’s the Come to Jesus Meeting I’ve been needing.
It gets better as you get more senior and have more context, and a larger role in deals. Also, as you progress, you start to develop deeper relationships with clients and colleagues, and those can also be a huge source of satisfaction.