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…to partner at either a midsize or large firm. I feel like a fraud and that I haven’t earned it. Due to jumping around and mixing two related practice areas, I haven’t been trained up well. Also, this is like a second career for me and while my first was a role doing quasi-legal work in the same niche, I’ve been practicing fewer years than I should to become partner (4-6).
Can anyone relate and have any advice? This doesn’t feel like it’s just imposter syndrome, it’s actually being an imposter. I feel like I will go to next place and be found out and have to move again or clients will stop coming to me (unless I can somehow find great associates to do the work and I just manage from above which would be ideal since I’m terrible at the actual work).
Well, how have you gotten so far and built a book if you’re terrible at the work? Do more of what you’re good at. Find those associates to do the work. Try to hang on for longer than a year in your next place because eventually the record of moving every year will catch up to you. It sounds like you know all this, though.
Other ideas — try going in house to a role where you are mainly deciding on the issues but managing outside counsel which is doing the actual work? I’m in house and this is not my reality, but I have peers at other companies whose role is like this. I don’t know how to find this type of role, though.
Also, make sure you’re saving your money for a day when you might not be able to land another job, or have an extended search, or where your next role pays substantially less. Hopefully that day never comes.
Thanks - I really wanted stay to at my current place for a long time and thought I would, particularly after growing a book, but the partner I work for doesn’t seem to want to support me in growing my book since it cuts into what I can do for the team. I am also getting nothing for my originations and there is no sign that I will anytime soon, so I don’t have much of a choice but to leave.
*came back to re-read and correction - “this IS a second career for me”