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[quote=Anonymous]OP - 2800 billable hours (billable or total?) is painful.  There is a threshold where each hour gets more painful because it eats into sleep and time with the family.  I did a few years of full time (~2200-2300 billable) and it was awful.  Billable hours are not regular - they are groups of long days and interrupted vacations.  Unless you are in the final stretch to make partner, the hours are not worth it.  It is due to caseload or is your group understaffed? If it is your group culture, then I suggest moving firms. You need to figure out a way to reduce your hours and decide if  you are okay with your career trajectory slowing down to do it.

Also, doing those hours does not guarantee partnership or even longevity (there was a colleague who did crazy hours, got top bonus and was laid off within the same year).  Instead, maybe try to reduce hours and spend time on things that will make you valuable.  I found that as long as I did a bit more than expected on hours and focused on some key business development activities to help the group, I did great.  You can't always control the hours but it least it brings them down to something more manageable.

I am on a mommy track now and working reduced hours (I am scheduled for about 30 but it depends - sometimes it is 20, sometimes 60 if I am on a project).  I still don't feel like I have it totally together but it is so much better than when I was full time.

The time with kids is short - OP - I would think strategically about what you want and how to get it.[/quote]

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