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[quote=Anonymous]About 7 years ago, I was your DH. We moved here, and I did about 18 months of doc review.  By the end, I was so depressed I could barely get out of bed.  I was lucky enough to be able to take a couple of years off. I treated the depression, and sat for the VA bar.  And was able at the end of two years to be hired into the federal government. I am several years in and love my job. So it ended well

Now, I had some things going for me. I had substantive experience in a really complex area of administrative law that an agency needed. And I had a friend who worked with me on a long term doc review project who had been hired by that agency, and who gave my resume a push. So yes, you can network and doc review. Really just by making friends on the projects, adding them to your FB feed or linked in. You never know where people will end up. I had prior federal empowerment related to the area where I was hired. And we weren't in the middle of a hiring freeze. It may be a bad few years for federal legal hiring. And, I had young children, so I spun doc review and time off as a flexible work schedule and taking time to raise small children.  So it didn't look as bad as it might otherwise have.

But Doc review is a putting out fire type situation. You are so busy in crisis mode, you can lose sight of long term career planning. I would encourage your DH to try to pull out of it-- even take a month between projects if possible, and come up with a long term plan. Updated resume. Updated linked in. A different bar?  Continuing education, like night classes in tech or to get a CPA?  And yes, networking. I have gotten both of my good legal jobs through people I considered to be friends, and not professional contacts.

Good luck.  It really sucks.  [/quote]

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