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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a partner. Sure lots of partners have a lot of the things on your list. But that has less to do with them having a certain “culture” and more to do with having money. If you did a poll of 100 adults making over $2m a year, I suspect many of them would have multiple homes and luxury cars, etc. Also, a lot of the things on your list genuinely make life a lot easier when you’re married and with kids, so I don’t think they reflect “culture” so much as “if you can afford it, why wouldn’t you?”. Having more space in a neighborhood with good schools? Almost everyone with kids wants that, it’s just a lot of ppl can’t afford it. Frankly, a Mercedes drives better than a Corolla, so if you’re working 70 hours a week why wouldn’t you prefer to drive home in that car at midnight?

At the same time, lots of biglaw partners aren’t into expensive stuff. I’m in a $1m house with my husband and kid, but we do have midrange luxury cars ($65k Audis). We have a beach place that my parents bought a long time ago. But we’re not golfers or into wine or other rich guy stuff. Our kid goes to public school and we live pretty regular lives day to day. Lots of my partners are the same - in two bedrooms in manhattan with their kids, no cars, members at the Y. Most of us aren’t members of country clubs.

Point being, culture and fit into this expensive luxury world has little bearing on your ability to make partner. All they will care about is if you do good work, have good potential with client relations, and if they like you generally.

But with all that said…. I’m going to go out on a limb and say you have a different culture fit issue. Specifically, you sound immature, judgmental and inexperienced. It’s weird that you are brushing all your hundreds of partners with the same broad strokes, when I’m sure there’s a lot of diversity of personality and interests among them. I think you’re also silly to not recognize that if you have kids, a lot do the things you list have nothing to do with culture and more to do with the realities of kids. The immaturity and judgement you’re exhibiting is a personality trait that’s going to make it tough for you to gel well with your partners. They don’t care if you’re a member of a club or drive a g-wagon. But they do care if you’re irritating, and that alone will stop you from getting promoted. [/quote]

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