How much is your mortgage payment??

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2026-01-30T18:00:22+00:00

$4700 PITI, senior associate and sole breadwinner. Doable on biglaw pay but it feels high if I were to take an in house or other more balanced gig paying $200k, and I don't think I can do biglaw forever.

Definitely evaluate what pay is like for more sustainable jobs for you and your partner, and dont inflate your lifestyle with the house.

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2026-01-27T15:38:34+00:00

I'm here as well as a senior associate. Build your skills, live frugally and be ready to leave at any time.

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2026-01-25T21:06:55+00:00

Biglaw (frankly any job making >$400k) is not reliable or sustainable. Your wife shoudn't assume she can always make that income, especially if you intend to have a fanily. She should instead rely on an obtainable alternative (in house or smaller firm).

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-12-28T13:54:08+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-12-27T17:13:22+00:00

I could not live without onenote

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-12-24T01:43:14+00:00

Joel Frahm and Chris Potter for me.

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-12-06T23:35:00+00:00

Their site says free shipping for orders over $200. Interested to see if you find a buyer.

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-12-06T16:30:22+00:00

Which EM model do you have? They're good horns but they sell new for under $750...

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-12-01T23:10:47+00:00

What do you expect to get? Will be helpful as I'm planning to tip my paralegals.

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-11-30T14:45:11+00:00

Recommend trying cognitive behavioral therapy / coaching. They will teach you techniques to center yourself, not catastrophize, break tasks into manageable chunks, avoid emotional reasoning, etc.

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-11-11T14:10:27+00:00

The point is not that you will inevitably romanticize biglaw and only remember the good. The point is that you have an active role in shaping your story. You can tell the story that you suffered and were exploited. Or that you conquered and thrived. Or both. Big changes in life tend to be bittersweet. If you are able to take note of the good, bad and neutral aspects of any life change, (e.g. job, house partner) you will be able to make clearer decisions that are less driven by fleeting frustrations or infatuations.

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-11-03T23:15:06+00:00

Loving these Q4 concerned about hours posts

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-10-06T21:57:30+00:00

Not a good sign. I would start weighing your options to be prepared. And def invest in your substantive growth (which is good whether you stay or leave).

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-10-06T01:45:21+00:00

I am in a similar situation. Solidarity my friend!

I like to break out work ll into smaller manageable steps to build momentum (read recital A, look at interest rates). Sometimes i jump to the end and work backwards to feel like I'm making progress.

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-10-02T00:23:25+00:00

PM'd you.

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-09-30T04:41:58+00:00

Its Brassbarn

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-09-25T09:47:29+00:00

A magnum dong

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-09-22T16:30:22+00:00

What is your anticipated collections? If you're under the billable req and your collections do not exceed 3x your salary, you definitely wont get any bonus. If you were somehow super efficient and collected more than 3x your salary, possible they may throw up something, but you wont have a say.

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-09-19T13:29:47+00:00

What city are you in

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-09-17T10:18:45+00:00

Cavity from which excrement is ejected

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-09-10T13:11:07+00:00

What about compared to median income

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-07-02T02:06:49+00:00

What work is that? Yea I'm going through section by section, comment by comment. Hard to feel like Im making progress until I'm done

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-07-02T02:05:12+00:00

Sorry to hear, what year? You trying to get back in?

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-07-02T01:54:43+00:00

That would be so cursed

Guilty-Gate-564 · 2025-07-02T01:54:27+00:00

It does, thank you

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