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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, OP here and I sort of checked out from this thread initially when I wasn't getting many replies.

Thanks so much to those with constructive thoughts and ideas. I will look into them. I don't come from a patent law background. I do have a background that could lend itself to in-house, or higher ed, local government, or medical institution type work, if the right opportunity came along, but I would probably need to be connected to get a real shake. I'm open to law-related and also entirely non-law work, and trying to be really open minded right now.

To those criticizing the move I made and deciding without any information to base it on that I couldn't have had good reasons to leave before lining something else (besides contract work) up, I'm not going to go into the personal and potentially identifying details that led me to do what I did, but my reasons are solid and reasonable and also none of your business. What I'm trying to figure out is what next. Aside from the more personal details, I also live in a place where I won't be hired away from my firm by anyone without my bosses' open and public support. It's a small area, I was considered to have some value to the firm, and no one who knows of my bosses would ever risk crossing them. Also, yes I have some savings, I also have small kids and am the primary breadwinner in my family, and don't intend to blow through all my savings while taking a year to figure out my next move. I need and want a job.

I do wonder, as a PP suggested, if I'll need to accept a lower salaried position at least to start, to get my foot in the door somewhere.

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