Started in house in the in financial services industry and all I’ve done for the last 5 months are NDAs. Is this normal? It’s not really what I expected it to be while I was interviewing, but because of a change in internal priorities after I started I’ve only been working on these damn NDAs. Should I start looking elsewhere? Came from big law and I’m strongly considering going back because this is mind numbingly boring.

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Is the change in internal priorities likely to change soon? Or is there an end in sight? I’d ask if you can either have other things to do if you have bandwidth or if you can trade a little with someone else to do something else every once in a while…

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I dont understand; what are you doing? Do you not have form NDA you hand out? Or if vetting paper from others, have you not yet defined what’s the scope of fine vs things that require escalation? It just seems like there can’t be that much work to do if it truly is just basic NDAs.

What PC1 describes is very similar to my situation

If you’re getting paid well, I’d say just keep at it for another 6-12 months. If that’s still all you’re doing, then you can start looking to move to another in-house job. By then, you’ll have some in-house expertise to discuss at interviews, even if it’s all NDA work.

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