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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't need to bill anything close to 2300 to keep the checks coming.  This is DC, not NY.[/quote]

Hah. My dh in dc billed over 3000 last year and feels he needs to bill over 2400 to avoid getting fired.[/quote]

Your DH [b]billed[/b], on average, 58 hours a week? I call bullshit. Working 60+ hours a week, sure, but you can't bill every waking minute unless you're doing some [i]serious[/i] fraudulent puffery on your billables.[/quote]

Yes, over 3000 billables. He was working 18 hour days for weeks at a time and 14 to 16 otherwise. He did not bill fraudulently. He was often stuck in conference rooms at least 12 hours a day, allowed out only for bathroom breaks as meals were ordered in, and then had to continue working after the meetings were over.

He did not get enough sleep and ate horrible food ordered in practically every meal and never got to work out. It was awful for his health. Billing 2400 seemed like vacation in comparison.[/quote]

DH told me that when he's stuck in conference rooms with coworkers in his own firm, he would just get down on the floor and do pushups. He spent a lot of time on conference calls, and there was a lot of listening for large blocks of time so that's when they'd do them. He keeps a couple of free weights in his office too. [/quote]

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