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Alternative Careers for Attorneys |
| Message Name: |
How do attorneys cross-over? |
| Date Posted: |
10/30/2002 |
| Message: |
I have been an attorney for almost 2 years. I'm already burned out. Believe that! I know so many people in this field that are just settling, because this is the only field they have a degree in. I decided not to settle. I walked out of a firm and have been unemployed for 6 months. Regrets, "I have a few" - Should I have walked out? Yes. I was coming home crying every day, miserable because I was one woman attorney among 9 other men. They would make some sexist comments, disgusting ones, eyeing me up and down, etc. I got sick of it. They critiqued (unecessarily) everything I did. I put up with it. But when the insults started, that was it! When I think about it in retrospect, I feel that I made the right decision. True, I am unemployed and in debt, but I have my integrity, self respect, and sanity in tact. Still no job and I don't want to practice law any more. What next? That's what I want to know. What are alternative fields with someone with a J.D. and a bachelors in Criminal Justice? How limited am I? Problem is, I don't have experience in any other field? Is the bottom where I have to start in any field? Did I go to law school for nothing? Help? Anyone with the same problem? I don't mind making less money, so long as I'm happy.
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