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[quote=Anonymous]What would you say to me - mid 40s, at a FinReg, have never liked it but stayed 10 yrs because frankly after I didn't make partner in biglaw I was done with that life and working like that to not get rewarded so it was a good enough job w a high enough salary so whatever. But now I feel like I have zero options - can't go back to biglaw but if I could even get hired (prob not) they'd want to take me in a practice area related to my FinReg which does NOT interest me. Like it doesn't interest me 40 hours a week, let alone the 60 hour/wk biglaw culture.

So now what?? The only part of my career that I really liked was about 4-5 years of biglaw associate years where I was doing something specialized - think tax litigation (just an example, it wasn't actually tax). So now I have this notion of - can I somehow pivot to doing "tax" on the business side or the law side? Obviously biglaw would never consider it but medium law, some smaller consulting firm? Is this idea completely out to lunch??

Like everyone else I just feel so down, but I feel like my peers in FinReg who aren't looking to stay will happily jump to biglaw FinReg practices and that's that. While I'm floating around not knowing what to do. [/quote]

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