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08-14-2024, 01:25 PM
#91
Originally Posted By miscinbro⏩
I've always been under the impression that as an associate your career prospects are based on your individual billables (quite literally the number of hours you work), whereas as you get higher they are based on the total billables for the clients you bring in. It's all about the revenue you can generate for the firm, of which your personal billables become a lower percentage the higher you go. Your being able to generate an extra 10k hours for associates is more valuable than being able to generate an extra 500 hours for yourself.
All I’m qualified to speak about professionally is law - and this isn’t true. In Big Law you get hired effectively after your first year of three in law school. You work as an associate making the firm huge profits and your path is to either 1) become middle management and work harder, both reporting up to the partners and managing the associates, or maybe 2) become a partner - and work even more.
Maybe other industries are better, but my own life has taught me that the only way out is to work for far less money later in your career.
Maybe other industries are better, but my own life has taught me that the only way out is to work for far less money later in your career.
Yes, working more hours helps, but there is less direct correlation between hours worked and rewards.
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08-14-2024, 01:51 PM
#92
Originally Posted By DuracellBunny⏩
That’s the theory, but it’s not true. Partners (even full equity ones) still have billable hours. There might be a unicorn or two out there that has such a book of business they can get away with anything, but mostly they all work far more than 80 hours a week.
I've always been under the impression that as an associate your career prospects are based on your individual billables (quite literally the number of hours you work), whereas as you get higher they are based on the total billables for the clients you bring in. It's all about the revenue you can generate for the firm, of which your personal billables become a lower percentage the higher you go. Your being able to generate an extra 10k hours for associates is more valuable than being able to generate an extra 500 hours for yourself.
Yes, working more hours helps, but there is less direct correlation between hours worked and rewards.
Yes, working more hours helps, but there is less direct correlation between hours worked and rewards.
08-15-2024, 06:32 PM
#93
Originally Posted By DuracellBunny⏩
Many don't want to, because they "opt out" due to an overly negative perception of the world that is itself a coping mechanism. It is easily visible in Miscer posts that make wild generalizations about entire market sectors.
If people are young, single, don't have kids and do nothing after work except play games and watch porn/netflix, they would be better off working more (not saying 80 hours a week, but a couple of years of 60 hours won't kill them) so that they can then work less hours when they
do
have wives, kids etc
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