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3 PQE doing liti in a big4 now and seriously not enjoying it - worth it to make a switch to corp with the likely pay cut?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

3 PQE doing liti in a big4 now and seriously not enjoying it - worth it to make a switch to corp with the likely pay cut?

Yes if you hate what you are doing. But what makes you think you won’t hate transactional work?

Also what’s with the infiltration by edmw hahaha

Originally Posted by Unregistered

it's true, during boomer era the brightest of the cohorts become engineers, the dumb ones study law. But heng heng they made the right bet become partners now, but now they feel their rice bowl threatened by smart millennials, so they nitpick on your font size make u dulan and quit

Engineering was a right choice during that time.
Those were development years, you need to build infrastructure, your ports, housing, roads, etc, and these people rode the tide.
The manufacturing boom created a lot of millionaires through IPOs

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How tf you fail FOUR part a papers?

The answer to ur qn is part of my original qn..

Originally Posted by Unregistered

save urself some grief and get out la. obviously not cut out for this

i had a friend failed one paper and went to sell insurance, now he make 2x what i do before cb. rly waste time nia

where u go to uni? if not uk pls dun bother replying. if u retake hope uncle woon fark u gao gao again, ppl like u deserve it sia. xia suay ttm

How does going to a UK Uni make any difference to what you say in the first para.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How tf you fail FOUR part a papers?

By not meeting the pass requirement I Guess..

Originally Posted by Unregistered

By not meeting the pass requirement I Guess..

Relax. Just redo and redo until you pass.
Though tbh you might really hate the practice of law.
The practice of law is actually very tough and can be cruel without a good mentor.
You just get very worn down. And perhaps mental problems eventually.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Relax. Just redo and redo until you pass.
Though tbh you might really hate the practice of law.
The practice of law is actually very tough and can be cruel without a good mentor.
You just get very worn down. And perhaps mental problems eventually.

How do firms view this disaster?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

3 PQE doing liti in a big4 now and seriously not enjoying it - worth it to make a switch to corp with the likely pay cut?

Agree with the above poster that it's worth it if you really hate what you do.

But honestly, now's not really a good time to make the move into corp... and it's also quite difficult finding partners willing to hire corp lawyers with 0 corp exp at 3 pqe (even if you are willing to take a damn big pay cut).

I'd say try anyway, but make sure it's what you really want to do. Seniors can usually understand making a change once, but rarely ever look kindly on assocs who make such a change twice or make a u-turn a couple of years down the road (whatever they may say).

Have you thought about switching specializations within liti?

How real is burn out in the profession? Can anyone share some rough figures of how many people leave within 2PQE, 5PQE?