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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you loved the work I would say you should move closer to it [b]and have your husband quit his job so you could fire the nanny and he'd be able to prep healthy meals for you to pack (or just buy you a bunch of lean cuisines) and you should hire a personal trainer to really put you through your paces for 30 min a few times a week [/b](you'd make up the rest by walking to work or the metro).

But you don't love the work, just the money it brings. It's not the right choice now and it doesn't seem worth it. You need an exit strategy. Commit to staying through this year and do your best at work, but start looking for other things. Could you be a career clerk for a judge? Are there jobs at Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw that are more research based? Do you want to work in government? In-house? Nonprofit? Do what you need to do to make your next job financially possible, whether that's hiring more childcare now so your husband can get a better paying job, or devoting more money to paying off student loans, or choosing to stay at your job until your youngest is in kindergarten or you get fired.

I don't think biglaw is for you and that's ok. It isn't for most people. At least you have a clerkship bonus and a year of biglaw salary to pad your path to whatever's next.[/quote]

Agree with moving closer to the job, but the bolded really isn't necessary, at all.  I mean, if OP wants to do the bolded, sure go ahead.  But it's not like it's necessary to do that to thrive in biglaw.[/quote]

Necessary for all Big Law folks? no. But OP seems to stress about having someone home for her kids, and a stay at home dad solves that issue. She wants to maintain her weight, and doesn't seem able to be maximally efficient with food and exercise. Outsourcing meal prep (either to a husband or a delivery service) and exercise (by hiring a trainer) would help. It sounds like kids and then health (exercise, sleep, etc.) are the most important things to OP. That makes biglaw a bad fit. But if she's going to do it nonetheless, she needs to make those things as easy as possible and jettison the rest.[/quote]

Fair enough.  I tend to agree with you the biglaw is a bad fit for the OP.  Based on that, I'd be very reluctant to have DH quit just to keep biglaw thing going a couple more years.  OP's next job after biglaw likely won't be as lucrative.  They'll need DH to keep his career going so they'll be ok once the biglaw money dries up.  The last thing they need is to derail DH's career now, imho.[/quote]

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