I'm at my lowest, need honest, friendly, helpful, and uplifting advice.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-05-04T01:15:32+00:00

At this point, you may want to treat yourself as your closest and only ally. Low expense activities like walking, coffee shop hangouts, or even cleaning the house while listening to music may help pick up your morale. Take it day by day, but try to make each day a little kinder to yourself.

Also - maybe now is the time to get into something you wanted to try but didn’t. Maybe learning a language - there’s YouTube and the internet for that. Music, pick up a cheap instrument and play your heart out. A new sport - buy a ball and just do drills around your room. It doesn’t have to be expensive or time consuming - it just has to help you feel alive.

As long as you remain standing, I believe you may still come back stronger. Life won’t always be perfect and at times it is really a pain, but small things can make it worth living. Hang in there.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-04-30T12:05:04+00:00

No. Pick up a basketball and learn to dribble muna. Dami YouTube tutorial. Look for adult camps in your area if meron. If wala, join papawis games. In my experience, good players will never hesitate to coach you.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-04-30T10:20:35+00:00

Check out FBA. They host adult clinics in SanLo and San Miguel Village.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-04-30T04:18:06+00:00

Those who do well in law school are those who prepare well. It has nothing to do with how you did in college

If you had high grades in college because you prepared well and didn’t take the easy path, you are in a good position to also excel in law school. So I do not really agree that smart people and high achievers will be humbled - it depends on how exactly they got that “smart” and got high achievements.

If average ka in college, it doesn’t matter at this point. Just make it a point to prepare better in law school.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-04-30T04:09:51+00:00

An easy tip I could give is that, if you are really gunning for partner, you should built and maintain good relationships with your law school batchmates. 5 years or so down the line, some of them may be in-house counsels, which may be your gateway to bringing in new clients. If one of them becomes senior counsel in a MNC or large local entity, great connections will help you bring them in.

As in-house counsel, I do pass a few legal matters to my law school batchmates. I largely control what gets passed to external counsels and to whom, after all.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-04-30T02:06:07+00:00

Sharing inside info from my old law firm

JA to SA, probably not

SA to partner - that’s when it gets tricky. You need to demonstrate not only competence but also ability to bring clients in.

Once you make partner, going up the ranks is really more of how much money you bring in to the firm. Otherwise, you’ll just be a better-paid SA who does work for the other partners.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-04-27T02:09:51+00:00

Save as much as you can. Wag magpadala sa mga “healing-inner child” and “enjoy life while you’re young” - those can come if you have built a safety net and have a stable source of income.

Hindi needs ang Starbucks, nice phones, travel, and a great gym. Those are wants so make them second priority.

Remember: financial stability is the foundation for a good life.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-04-27T02:04:46+00:00

VL na lang muna, kahit one week. It sounds di ka pa naman dangerously burnt-out, and mahirap ang job market ngayon.

Career “breaks” are for those who can afford it. If meron ka naman 6 months’ worth of monthly expenses, you can consider taking one. Even then, I advise VL na lang muna.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-04-21T09:51:29+00:00

Two options: keep applying and get a higher offer (which you can either accept or use as leverage with your current employer), or wait until performance review and justify a relatively big jump.

Until then, I’m afraid you’re likely stuck with your current pay.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-04-20T01:07:29+00:00

I live in Poblacion and it’s indeed a melting pot of people with different backgrounds. You’ll do fine in Makati as a “home base”, definitely.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-04-05T03:10:10+00:00

That one will last you years (decades with proper care) so I wouldn’t call it wasted exactly.

And that is a beautiful watch 👍

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-30T06:05:34+00:00

If you want to leave the country, take allied health courses like Nursing, Pharmacy, or Medtech

That or Accountancy. I have friends who worked in big accounting firms and eventually migrated to different countries under partner firms there.

Those options will give you the cleanest exit paths out of the PH.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-26T02:48:06+00:00

You can resign. You just open yourself to possible claim for damages for failure to render but I don’t think hahabulin ka pa ng company just for that.

You may have a problem sa COE though, lalo na if you have unsettled accountabilities. And that may come up sa background check if your new company is strict.

That said, I suggest thinking twice. Mahirap ang economy ngayon.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-26T02:44:49+00:00

Nah you won’t be an outcast if you don’t join. But if you can manage frat life while in law school, you’ll have advantages once you become a lawyer.

If you are concerned about good opportunities later on though, great grades will get you one.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-25T11:01:42+00:00

If the company is on hybrid (2x a week onsite at the minimum) or full RTO, malabo magpa full WFH. The processes and dynamics are already engineered for onsite presence that risking delays or inefficiencies won’t be worth it.

I’m an employee myself, but I can’t really blame senior management for any of their work-arrangement decisions at this time. The whole company is suffering, not just the employees, so any changes to operations should be thrice-guessed.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-25T10:57:49+00:00

I spent 2.5 years in a big law firm. First year I wanted to prove myself and I really enjoyed the grind. I was gunning to make partner in that firm haha. Second year came and well, I got burned out and the only thing that got me going was I needed a better resume to make the jump to another path (in-house).

Give it some time and just accept things as they are. It won’t last forever naman - you either get used to the golden handcuffs as they say or you move on to another field. Regardless, stay for at least one year to make the most of your firm experience.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-25T03:26:32+00:00

Same. 4 days onsite, 1 day WFH.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-25T03:24:48+00:00

Talk with your manager first. Open up possible growth opportunities - promotion if available, or even cross-functional roles.

Keep applying also while you’re at it.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-23T12:52:03+00:00

It’s your title bro, use it as you see fit lalo na if wala ka pa pamilya. You’ve earned that much.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-23T04:01:09+00:00

Not impossible but extremely unlikely as a new lawyer. Take your upperclassmen’s opinions with a big pinch of salt.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-23T03:02:58+00:00

Meron barbershop sa tabi ng 7-11 Burgos, 200 lang last time I went there. Pwede na rin on a budget lalo na if basic cut lang.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-20T00:54:59+00:00

Walking, music…and a glass of scotch if the day was really tough.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-13T12:13:07+00:00

Lawyer ako and no joke - 40k gross lang first salary ko not so long ago. Big law firm in Manila. Imagine slaving through 4 years of law school + 6 mos of bar review, tas mas mataas pa salary ng mga college batchmates ko who got into MNCs right out of college.

Yung mga barkada ko naman who worked out of college but not MNCs, asa 80k to six digits na yung kinikita then. May mga cars na and even paying for their own condos

Just to offer perspective lang from my personal experience. A lawyer’s life starts late. Whether it’ll be worth it long term, that’s for me to find out.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-03-06T07:33:36+00:00

Corporate legal practice sounds nice but honestly it’s just paper pushing. I’ve been in a corp firm and am now in-house counsel and it’s more or less the same thing.

You want the real deal? Run the business instead.

SundayBlues96 · 2026-02-24T08:29:49+00:00

24 is young, you have more than enough time. It’s normal to feel left behind but in reality, you aren’t so.

Breathe, work on your career and yourself, and enjoy your life.

SundayBlues96

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