Any severely underemployed lawyers out there?
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Anonymous
| Any career change advice ? |
Anonymous
| Become a chef. Or marry a rich guy or woman. |
Anonymous
| maybe a compliance department at a big company? your law degree would come in handy but you wouldn't actually be practicing law. |
Anonymous
| Write a book. |
Anonymous
| Start a business putting together care packages. |
Anonymous
NP. I actually would love to do this! |
Anonymous
| Become a politician. |
Anonymous
This is a fairly easy business to start. Begin networking at local chamber of commerce events and your product will sell. |
Anonymous
| DH was. Found a niche and moved up in it. No longer underemployed. Don't be a generalist. |
Anonymous
| Is going back to school in one’s 40s a realistic option? My legal career isn’t an option it is over, never began |
Anonymous
| Why is your legal career over/never began? |
Anonymous
| What's the difference between underemployed and unemployed? |
Anonymous
NP. I'm underemployed. I have a job that requires bar admittance, but I should have a much better, more challenging, higher paying position given my credentials (T3 law school with honors, federal clerkship, law journal, firm and govt. experience, etc.) Does that make sense? So I'm not unemployed, but I'm underemployed. My former position required a lot of travel, so I "mommy-tracked" myself into this position when I had kids. I really need to move on, though, before I find that I can't. |
Anonymous
Ah, okay. That's how I feel about my gov't position. |
Anonymous
Quoted PP here. DCUM often refers to my job as $hitlaw. |