I am 6 billable hours away from my Nov. 1 target. Can I go back to bed? 😴

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Working on those December hours now! This is the season when you make that bonus money!

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Assuming you are on a 12/31 year end like my firm.

Our billable year ends on 11/1, so my numbers reset after this month

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My vote is sleep for the rest of the month.

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Yes

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Try to bang out some “easy billing” for the next few days so as to pace yourself but still make it look good.

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Congratulations! Honestly I’d probably go into overdrive so the firm views you as an overachiever, not just hitting the target and .. well, going back to bed.

Not sure 4 days of overdrive is going to make much of a difference, but I take your point!

In the same position except I exceeded the requirement last week and have very little billable work... year ends in a week and I have very little motivation to ask for more work.

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