Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Very often. Including cold sweat even while eating with my gf.
Nightmares daily about work not anything else.
Very huge aversion to noise and light
Extreme OCD

Are you in liti or corp? B4 or other?

Would recommend you quit practice or move to a smaller firm.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Very often. Including cold sweat even while eating with my gf.
Nightmares daily about work not anything else.
Very huge aversion to noise and light
Extreme OCD

Do you take any health supplements to cope?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Do you take any health supplements to cope?

Not the OP but Xanax does help but not good for long term

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not the OP but Xanax does help but not good for long term

I don't dare to take prescription drugs.

Sad to say though, I picked up smoking to de-stress and create opportunities to step out of the office.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I don't dare to take prescription drugs.

Sad to say though, I picked up smoking to de-stress and create opportunities to step out of the office.

Not OP. But yeah smoking is another one. Just that I live with my parents so a bit difficult.
I know people who take caffeine pills.
Apparently you can do a shareholders’ agreement in half the time required with the caffeine pills.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not OP. But yeah smoking is another one. Just that I live with my parents so a bit difficult.
I know people who take caffeine pills.
Apparently you can do a shareholders’ agreement in half the time required with the caffeine pills.

Caffeine pills make your heart race. May not be good. I tried it in law school, felt more jittery. Some swear by it though.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Was 3PQE at big 4 before leaving (the one with the highest profit margin, B4 assocs should know), so I was made aware of what my pay would be at 4PQE senior assoc. Can confirm that 6PQE would definitely be way above 12k, before bonuses.

Eh wah. Is it! At my b4 firm, I had heard when we reach 6 PQE (ie called to the Bar in middle of 2014) we would get $12,X00 only (before bonus)... And we are supposed to be lockstep and equivalent pay to another of the B4... Ugh... Hope my info is wrong then. But if so, it means that the step up from 5pqe in both these two firms is large (confirmed that standard track 5 pqe SA at these two firms gets $11,X00 before bonus)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

TSMP had 7 Liti trainees and 6 Corp trainees this year. I wonder how many of them got retained.

why are people on this forum so into TSMP?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

why are people on this forum so into TSMP?

Is it cos one of their youngest partners running for election?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Caffeine pills make your heart race. May not be good. I tried it in law school, felt more jittery. Some swear by it though.

I took modafinil while in law school and found myself to be in this heightened sense of concentration. But it left me with a dry mouth and headache once the effect wore off.