You’ve accomplished your goal of becoming a lawyer. Congratulations. Have you stopped to think about how happy you are in your current job? Are you on the career path you thought you would be, or more importantly, the one you want? Have you even thought about it? Finding time to take stock of your career can be difficult, but is most certainly a worthwhile endeavor. FindLaw’s Job Satisfaction section contains advice on things to consider in becoming partner, strategies for self-assessment, evaluating your present law career position, what makes happy lawyers, and dealing with the demands of billable hours. Read on to learn what considerations may affect understanding your true level of job satisfaction.
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Job Satisfaction Articles
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Find Satisfaction in Law - Self Assessment - Value of Not Killing a Mockingbird
Find Satisfaction In the Law: Taking Control over Your Career and Your Life Self-Assessment II: The Value of Not Killing a Mockingbird By Mark L. Byers, Ph.D. and Ronald W.
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Achieving Career Satisfaction: Make the Investment, But Choose Your Investments Carefully
For many attorneys, career planning is a reactive process. The fallacious belief is that hard work will lead to better opportunity. While this may still be true for some, the workplace has changed and now more than ever, attorneys must take responsibility for their own career development.
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Find Satisfaction in Law: Planting Yourself in the Right Soil
Finding the right place...for you. Many lawyers find themselves doing work that does not take advantage of their talents. Many lawyers work in offices ill-suited to their personalities. Many lawyers do work that is just plain boring.
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Being a Lawyer and a Person
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world.
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Work: It's All I Do!
Many lawyers complain the profession consumes them. Practicing law exemplifies the trading off between time and money. Time truly is money. You sell time; and your life is your time. Law firms are businesses that sell their employees' time.
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Are Two Degrees Better Than One?
Dual degrees can offer the opportunity to specialize by combining two disciplines that will help you reach your career goals. But is it right for you?
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Time, Satisfaction and the Law
Where do we draw the line between work and life? How does one avoid slipping out of 'working to live' and into 'living to work?'
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Find Satisfaction in Law: Darwin Among the Lawyers
If you are trying to figure out whether your job is for you, the Darwinian concept of adaptation may be a more useful assessment tool, at least initially, than any Jeffersonian ideas you may harbor concerning the pursuit of happiness.
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I Do Not Like What I Have Become
Every lawyer, whether as a solo practitioner or a corporate cog, must deal with how practicing law sometimes conflicts with his or her value system.
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Does it look bad that I have moved 3 times in 6 years?
I am a senior transactional associate at a premier Chicago "biglaw" firm. I latteralled here from another "biglaw" firm 2 years ago. Prior to that, I practiced in the litigation area for about a year.