#associate life

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Me explaining how I am going to pay off my student loan debt...

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Me hating my job but not having enough experience to get a new one and having to go to work every day and hate it

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I was sent on a special set hearing as a “learning experience” (read as we were going to lose and no one else wanted to drive an hour so the newbie took one for the team). 

Opposing counsel thought my argument was compelling and I even got the cranky judge to smile at me. Calling that a win. 

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Co-worker asks what I did over the long weekend...

I’m like...

Yeah, I m super good at social interactions

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Three day weekend...

But then you remember you still have to go back to work tomorrow and nothing changed since you left on Friday. 

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Me: researching some random legal concept.

Also me: “hmm, there isn’t a whole lot of case law on this, I must be right and it is not a thing.”

Me after an hour and a half of research: “there is a fucking statute addressing this issue?!?” (Seriously, a whole section in the Code of Civil Procedure.)

Me now:

I had to take a break from lawyering to share my shame. Thank you for letting me scream into the void. As you were.

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Mental health reminder...

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Trying to prep a partner for a deposition: