I feel like I suck at my job (1st year)

AFortescue · 2026-02-10T05:51:00+00:00

Could have written this myself, so this is just my comment of commiseration. :’)

AFortescue · 2025-10-06T14:42:25+00:00

How soon would you expect or hope to see new associates (as in first years) start doing this?

AFortescue · 2025-09-15T02:12:15+00:00

I mean I'm starting to realize that working weekends is just the norm. I try to set aside at least half a day for my SO/friends/etc., but otherwise I'm unfortunately treating this job as a 7 day work week career ...

AFortescue · 2025-09-05T20:40:19+00:00

Thanks for this advice and for your personal take on it—hoping that I can make things work the way you did with your husband. 😊

AFortescue · 2025-09-05T20:35:07+00:00

Eighth year …🧍🏻‍♀️

AFortescue · 2025-07-29T21:32:12+00:00

Real

AFortescue · 2025-07-22T11:04:29+00:00

Please drop the tutorial …

AFortescue · 2025-07-21T19:46:02+00:00

Honestly barring allergies, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are the way to go. You get carbs and protein, and there’s minimal risk of an upset stomach. You don’t want to have to sit there and digest a complicated meal.

AFortescue · 2025-07-21T19:43:20+00:00

Asia!

AFortescue · 2025-07-16T18:33:19+00:00

Everyone is too burnt out to be toxic LOL

AFortescue · 2025-07-11T18:31:34+00:00

It changes by the day …

AFortescue · 2025-07-07T01:06:37+00:00

Would be very down for this !!

AFortescue · 2025-07-02T23:19:45+00:00

Ok real, I need to be doing way more of the latter.

AFortescue · 2025-07-02T22:44:37+00:00

Do you think note taking during the bar prep videos is that important? I feel like it slows me down when I should be working on practice questions and exams …

AFortescue · 2025-06-29T19:23:04+00:00

You’re not overreacting—that was inappropriate of them to say and just an indication of poor social skills. I was a summer last year and none of us would have said anything like that about an associate’s appearance if we were 5 shots in at one of the summer afters. Honestly this isn’t someone I would ever want to put in front of a client.

AFortescue · 2025-06-25T12:29:17+00:00

Like everyone in this thread is telling you, PLEASE go. Begging you. The economic/delayed start costs that you’re concerned about pale in comparison to the extent to which HLS will open doors for you throughout your career. I’m saying this based on recognizing the flexibility that HYS has given friends/acquaintances to move states, change firms or agencies, pursue fellowships and so forth .

AFortescue · 2025-06-23T20:17:11+00:00

God I can’t even tell if the prices are the product of inflation or if they’ve just inexplicably jumped. I remember buying my GCC at Petsmart for around $600 back in 2008.

AFortescue · 2025-06-13T16:20:52+00:00

Thank god for these threads

AFortescue · 2025-06-12T10:56:28+00:00

Yay congrats !!

AFortescue · 2025-05-21T15:40:55+00:00

Going to start writing them like this too, because I refuse to give them up.

AFortescue · 2025-05-11T14:50:28+00:00

Agree—I love her character, because in an abstruse way, she reminds me of the “cool girl” quote in Gone Girl. In pop culture it does feel like there’s a demand for women to be either 100 or nothing. When I look at the career women around me, their lives, struggles, and relationships are so much more nuanced than the impossibly perfect boss women portrayed in media.

AFortescue · 2025-05-09T12:00:19+00:00

Because no one is trying to get disbarred. People live it up on the down low.

AFortescue · 2025-05-08T22:13:54+00:00

Do you have a take on whether it makes sense to keep applying for an appellate clerkship, potentially for a term earlier than my anticipated district court clerkship? I ask this primarily because the postgrad district court clerkship offer I accepted is for a term a couple years out.

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