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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Should I just pay my loans off and save up hard for 5-6 years, and then bolt and do something where I can be with nice people? But will I feel like a professional failure?[/quote]

Probably yes to question one, and no to question two.

Go and practice and see how you like it.  If it's an are you enjoy, you might love it.  I loved appellate and motion practice, but the constant conflict of litigation was wearing on me.

It's nice and all to build a long legal career and be well-known in your legal community, but there are many other valid paths to take.  I found myself in gov't and am doing all sorts of interesting things.  The skills I learned in law school still have value today.[/quote]

I know people who did just that--they lived really frugally so they could pay off their loans, worked hard so that they had a good reputation, and then left for a non-profit or the government.  And some of us who could have, never went to Biglaw in the first place!  And some people didn't plan it, they just worked for a handful of years, realized that they hated it, and figured out how to leave.  If you feel like a professional failure because you aren't making as much money but are doing work you like more with people you get along with, that's really on you.  [/quote]

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