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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I'm learning from this thread is that women in tech and law make obscene amounts of money and have low-stress jobs. Not interested in law school, but how do I get these high paying tech jobs? Give me more details on your career path![/quote]

Lawyers make a lot, but these women with low-stress jobs are talking about specific roles like in-house counsel (which are still prestigious IMO but they are NOT the "Big Law" firm jobs which can be 80-100 hours a week). Many of them had to get one of those stressful law firm jobs right out of law school to make their name. And lots of lawyers have school debt. I have thought about going to law school and would be an excellent lawyer (my job is lawyer-adjacent) but the debt and the prospect of extremely stressful employment just to eventually make it to a cushy in-house job is not worth it.[/quote]

So I'm one of the PPs above with an in house job (I'm not sure I'd call it cushy, but it is FT WFH and 40-45 hours a week), and I took a pretty unique career path in that I only worked as a biglaw associate for one year, then did a lengthy stint in gov't as a Fed, and then transitioned to in house. I also just got all of my law school debt forgiven by the expanded PSLF waiver that went into effect last year. That said, it was pretty tough to land my in house job given my background, but I will say there are other routes to in house out there besides the typical 3-6 years in biglaw that most folks do. [/quote]

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