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Feb. 26th, 2015 07:07 amMaybe I’m overworking. Maybe I’m underworking.
I’m in a situation where I’m reviewing my career goals. I went to and graduated from law school comparatively late in life, and am just now realizing I’m hitting the 10-year mark in my profession (as opposed to 20 years professional work all together). Like other professional careers, you generally wind up specialized in a particular area of law as opposed to being a generalist. I’m in EEO and employment law for the most part. It’s not a terribly complex or lucrative area of law, and I’m near capped out financially if I stay in government.
EEO law can really suck outside of government - it’s great to be supporting a company, but from my experience I don’t want to deal with EEO filers even for pay; I’d work for companies.
I’ve picked up a more thorough review of job opportunities and considered what it might take to get out of this pigeonhole. I’ve spent a long time focused on how I can get the most pay for the least effort, but as I look at the efforts I do put in, I question whether that’s really my best view or plan.
It might be - there are worse things than making a good living at something you are good at. Then again, it’s hard not to get sucked into work and it’s hard to argue that making more money is a bad thing.
A bigger question is likely whether I should find a way into another area of law entirely...
While typing this I watched some idiot in a SUV try to park on the street in the snow, drive over the curb, and then get tire-spinning stuck trying to pull back onto the road. Now they’re going outside the car to assess the situation and where they are. Priceless.
So funny I should see that - one area I considered taking my skills was insurance law, as a coworker went to a group that tripled his Fed pay (ok doubled to tripled depending on bonus). My experience is not directly in that area, but defending against fraudulent damages claims is something I do - it just might be borderline dull, though I find fraud interesting and busting liars a moral thrill.
Oh good she got off the sidewalk...
Ok back to work...I had to “break” as I was reading a motion done by a much-better-paid lawyer who does the same thing I do, though I think they also file in the real courts rather than just in fed admin law like me. I found errors in the work which make me secure about my own work product, some style things that I consider weak, and also some much more on point case cites in the nitty-gritty analysis than I typically locate. So it both makes me secure, and sets areas I could improve on...but then I start contemplating my place in this area of law for my rate of pay.
Then I spiral with ... the above. I don’t need to make decisions, I don’t need to change - I could retire on what I do and make now, but should I choose to do so, I should be aware at every stage of the choices I’m making by acting or not acting.
...and now someone is running down the middle of the street sliding down the hill every few steps...
I’m in a situation where I’m reviewing my career goals. I went to and graduated from law school comparatively late in life, and am just now realizing I’m hitting the 10-year mark in my profession (as opposed to 20 years professional work all together). Like other professional careers, you generally wind up specialized in a particular area of law as opposed to being a generalist. I’m in EEO and employment law for the most part. It’s not a terribly complex or lucrative area of law, and I’m near capped out financially if I stay in government.
EEO law can really suck outside of government - it’s great to be supporting a company, but from my experience I don’t want to deal with EEO filers even for pay; I’d work for companies.
I’ve picked up a more thorough review of job opportunities and considered what it might take to get out of this pigeonhole. I’ve spent a long time focused on how I can get the most pay for the least effort, but as I look at the efforts I do put in, I question whether that’s really my best view or plan.
It might be - there are worse things than making a good living at something you are good at. Then again, it’s hard not to get sucked into work and it’s hard to argue that making more money is a bad thing.
A bigger question is likely whether I should find a way into another area of law entirely...
While typing this I watched some idiot in a SUV try to park on the street in the snow, drive over the curb, and then get tire-spinning stuck trying to pull back onto the road. Now they’re going outside the car to assess the situation and where they are. Priceless.
So funny I should see that - one area I considered taking my skills was insurance law, as a coworker went to a group that tripled his Fed pay (ok doubled to tripled depending on bonus). My experience is not directly in that area, but defending against fraudulent damages claims is something I do - it just might be borderline dull, though I find fraud interesting and busting liars a moral thrill.
Oh good she got off the sidewalk...
Ok back to work...I had to “break” as I was reading a motion done by a much-better-paid lawyer who does the same thing I do, though I think they also file in the real courts rather than just in fed admin law like me. I found errors in the work which make me secure about my own work product, some style things that I consider weak, and also some much more on point case cites in the nitty-gritty analysis than I typically locate. So it both makes me secure, and sets areas I could improve on...but then I start contemplating my place in this area of law for my rate of pay.
Then I spiral with ... the above. I don’t need to make decisions, I don’t need to change - I could retire on what I do and make now, but should I choose to do so, I should be aware at every stage of the choices I’m making by acting or not acting.
...and now someone is running down the middle of the street sliding down the hill every few steps...
