January 20, 2018, 12:29 PM
Dallas239Changing jobs
After 10 years at a firm, I will be going in house. Since it will be a totally different environment, this actually seems more like a career change than just a new job, but I am very excited. Maybe 75% excited, 25% terrified. Could be the other way around. But this job will make my already-short commute trivially short, provide paid vacation, actual time away from work, and more free time to spend with my family. Probably best of all, I will no longer be measured by the billable hour. I'm very psyched.
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Feeding Trolls Since 1995 January 20, 2018, 12:33 PM
BytesI'm not sure where the 25% terrified is coming from? Congrats, it seems like you're making a really good move!
January 20, 2018, 12:37 PM
V-TailGood for you! Best of luck.
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WarhorseCongratulations!
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January 20, 2018, 03:55 PM
Dallas239quote:
Originally posted by Bytes:
I'm not sure where the 25% terrified is coming from? Congrats, it seems like you're making a really good move!
It's a change. And I have to assume it's a one-way trip. It's much less common to go back to firm practice after working in-house. In some ways, it's a big step back in order to get on a different ladder, but it's one I think I want to be on.
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here." -- Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, Jan. 11, 1989
Si vis pacem para bellum
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
Feeding Trolls Since 1995 January 20, 2018, 10:22 PM
BurtonRWWelcome to the in-house counsel club!
You’ve already identified the bliss of no more billable hours. Don’t know what area of practice, but another HUGE perk for me is that my TPA (and adjusters) get their authority from me - not the other way around. My outside counsel colleagues are often jealous.
Yes, it’s nice work if you can get it.
-Rob
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A=A January 20, 2018, 11:50 PM
AeteoclesWelcome to the club!
The stress is different. You stress less about doing a good job (something in your control), and more about the outcomes of your decisions (business decisions with no guaranteed outcomes).
January 21, 2018, 12:08 AM
AljrCongratulations and best of luck to you. Turn your feelings of being anxious into excitement.
January 21, 2018, 02:27 AM
Rey HRHCongratulations and continued success!
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
January 21, 2018, 05:53 AM
SigLawNo billabe hours is the absolute best. I was in house counsel from 2010-16 and had no real billable hour requirement, just had to keep track of time. Now I am an in house "consultant" and do not even have to do that. Talk about freeing, it is such a monkey off the back.
Congratulations.
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January 21, 2018, 07:09 AM
ArtieSI did that in 2002. It's different, certainly. Different stresses, different incentives.
Take your time to learn how the business works, and take the time to understand the internal dynamic.
Businesses operate on different imperatives than do law firms. Not all of the experiences you have will translate directly, or particularly well to the new environment.
Are you GC, or are you working as an AGC in a legal department?
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Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.