I’m currently feeling stuck and I’m struggling with what to do next. I did firm work and hated it. I’m currently a public defender and I get paid well and I love it, but it’s starting to feel mundane. I just don’t know what to do next.

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Take a 2 week vacation. Give your brain a break. Then look at what you do and don’t like in your current and former roles. See if there’s something that hits the highest of the highs and avoids the lowest of the lows.

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Move to Japan teach English and go to raves in Seoul for a year and come back you will be aight tink tink

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Pray.

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