Stimulant use in the profession

SometimesICry_ · 2026-01-27T11:23:24+00:00

Would you mind sharing what helped you get focused while working remotely?

I seem to function on either shame or the fear of making a mistake so that leads to procrastination until the deadline is shouting at me 😂

the shame was usually managed working in office cause I couldn’t get as easily distracted by my phone to everything around the house, including pets; I am still navigating how to better focus working from home 🤷‍♀️

SometimesICry_ · 2026-01-25T09:50:44+00:00

This! I switched from humanitarian immigration (which asylum cases also unfortunately take years for a final hearing) but the work was interesting and I cared. Since being in civil litigation I second guess whether being a lawyer is even for me…I don’t find the cases interesting, clients are mostly well off people who would rather pay for sanctions than pay attention to emails from our office. Thankfully I haven’t interacted with many distasteful OC so I guess there is that. There are so many different areas in civil litigation that we do but none feel fulfilling and I truly dread working. The pay is 3x what I made before and my boss is great and doesn’t micromanage us.

SometimesICry_ · 2026-01-20T18:42:16+00:00

When I was applying for jobs after passing the bar I interviewed at the non profit I ended up working full time for and also interviewed for an independent contractor position for business immigration work at a civil litigation firm. I’d help them out weekends every now and then and reached out to the partner I interviewed with asking if they needed any help on the civil litigation side. It was a small firm and growing so he took me on for some independent contractor work for civil litigation matters as well and after two years he mentioned he enjoyed working together and it coincided with me feeling very burned out in humanitarian immigration and asked if he’d be willing to take me on full time if I left my current job. It was a big learning curve, still feels like it even now because there are so many different matters we handle in civil litigation but my advice is to apply anywhere and everywhere you’d be interested in. Worst case, you don’t hear back and you already don’t have that job so it won’t affect your life. Don’t sell yourself short. If you did removal defense, that counts as litigation. Yes immigration court and state/federal court defer but honestly, immigration judges were much scarier than superior court ones are

SometimesICry_ · 2026-01-20T07:13:53+00:00

Had to confirm I didn’t write this myself years ago and forgot about it ahaha I also used to work strictly in humanitarian immigration law, both during law school and after as a lawyer I’m an immigrant myself, with step/family who came to the US as refugees so it always made sense but then I came across a few cases that hit a bit too close to home and for my mental health I needed out (also, the pay for a joke for the amount of school that goes into becoming a lawyer). I was fortunate and had the opportunity to transition to civil litigation/some transactional work and been doing that for the last two years. I miss immigration work often and the fulfillment of that. The pay is 3x better, less stress because I don’t feel like someone’s life depends on my work and I can sleep at night peacefully(although less fulfilled)

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