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Real close to walking out...
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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
2. I think everyone has a geekitude for something and very few people's geekitude is satisfied by law. Fortunately for me, I do have a (hopefully well-hidden) geeky bent that gets excited about certain things about my job (I don't generally like the people too much, except the partner I currently work with, who is super-fantastic). But most people don't. And if absolutely no part of you gets excited about your job, then you should get out. If some little part of you does, then you can maybe find a way within the law to build on that, but if no part does, it's just never going to happen. imo, anyway.
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I agree. I don't hate what I do. I don't love it and get out of bed excited every day for it, but I don't hate it. I manged to find a job that keeps me relatively interested, and there's enough variety that I don't get that bored. I also don't make as much as a lot of other lawyers because I got out of the billable hours gig a long time ago. But I generally can stroll in here at 9:30 or so and leave by 6ish. I haven't had to work a weekend in three years. And I have a geeky little area of law that also gets me excited. I'm one of the few people around here that understands it, which gives me a lot of job security.
I think about getting out. I think about writing something that gets published or made into a movie. I think about my empire of sex toy shops. I think about a wine bar/bookstore. I think about running away to New Mexico and doing god knows what. But right now, this works for me.
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