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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former biglaw associate here who left for In-house: the quality of life is awful and the majority daydream abut getting out, so don't be jealous![/quote]

But take it in until 40, then 'retire' to some kind of lower ey career you like -- lsat tutor, whatever kind of job to get health insurance? You make 4-5x what I make as a government scientist, so you should be able to retire in at least half the time![/quote]

Don't be silly, your lifestyle ramps up because everyone around you is doing it, and law is status based so you can't lose face. [/quote]

So they fire you early if you dont buy crippling mortgage, private school, and s-class?

I mean if you earn $400k, and live like we do on $200k, in a  decade over 1 million and then when 'retireed' mean keep working but in a less stressful career freelance writer it LSAT tutor or something with Starbucks on the side for health ins. Save up early and coast, many Goldman Sachs refugees do this. [/quote]

It's not the keeping up with the Joneses that leads you to spend way more than you need to, it's exhaustion.  If you're putting all your energy into slaving away for 80 hours a week, you come to rely on the money as the only thing that makes your life easier.  You don't have time to cook, so you order in dinner every night.  You don't have time for a 45 minute commute, so you buy a townhouse in Dupont that's a five minute walk from work, even though it costs 3 times as much as a comparable one in Silver Spring.  And when you're that worn down, you make bad money choices.  If you need a car, you buy the bmw because most of your life is spent working at this soul sucking job, and if you find pleasure in driving an expensive car for those 10 minutes per day, you buy it.  It's easy to say hey, tough it out for 10 years and then "retire" to an easy job.  But 10 years is a long, long, long time to do that to yourself.  It takes a toll on your body, on your emotions, and on your happiness.  [/quote]

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