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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What particularly makes you feel like an outsider? Figuring that out was helpful for me.

I am also a lawyer and felt the same way in private practice, even as a partner. In retrospect, I think most of my colleagues felt like outsiders too and just put up a good front, so I didn’t realize how isolated many of them felt until after I left.

I moved in-house and it’s been great because my “peers” are now not other lawyers, although I still do work with lawyers too.

However, my most sustained contact is with people at my company in other professions (accountants, safety, BD, etc). This broader scope of interactions has helped me feel like less of an outsider because it’s less homogeneous professionally and there’s more actual diversity there too.

So while I know what you mean, I hope you’re able to feel empowered to change this if that’s something that would make a difference to you.[/quote]

Op here. That’s true, my larger company is less homogeneous, but my division is very similar in background. Similar in background, from the same area, went to the same schools and then to know each other or at least have cross paths socially, golf clubs etc. I’m originally from out of state.

The lower lever staff in my dept are more diverse, but every single senior level person other than one, is from a similar background.

I’m not even remotely saying they all don’t deserve to be there or they’re not qualified (all very smart and credentialed) but it does make me feel like an outsider[/quote]

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