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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, your posts sound confused. Your spouse is about to make partner and you're saving half your salary, but you feel like you can't take 2/3 paycut. You are nowhere near making hours but you say you don't mind the volume of work / same hours expectations at a smaller firm. You say you really don't like the type of work, but you're planning to pursue the type of work in house or at a smaller firm.

Figure out what you want. You can do different work at your current firm or, it sounds like, part time. You can probably afford to quit outright although I understand you don't want to. But moving to a new job for the sake of moving won't make you happier until you figure out what you want from your job. Good luck. [/quote]

I understand what you mean, and what I am trying to allude to, without potentially outting myself, is that what I want is to be on the other side of the v.  While my hours this year have been dismal, it's not like they've been in this state all the years I've been in practice, and being busy is great if you're doing what you want to be doing for partners you want to be doing it for. There have been some major changes in my firm/group that totally changed the culture and that have made me hate my firm and my work but not the law or working or litigation. [/quote]

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