(Author) Associate
With all the meetings and emails, when do you have time to do substantive work?
General Counsel and Owner Responses:
- It ain't the promised land, it's just not billing and working that many hours all the time. It's a huge pay cut and the hours can still be intense. I work a lot in-house, but that comes with the seniority of my roles.
- During the meetings where I am not actually contributing anything important. (That’s about half of my day).
Counsel Responses:
- “Oh, we find little times during the day.” - as Phyllis from The Office would say.
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It’s just different. You get your work done. Nobody cares how or when. Slow week means you can work on other stuff. Also, in-house; perfect is the enemy of good enough.
- 8-5 is for meetings. 5-9 is for work.
Attorney and Associate Responses:
- When everyone's gone to bed/asleep.
- Is in-house being the promised land a lie?!?!
- During meetings that I'm requested to join but don't need to be on (which is 90% of all meetings).
- Evenings and weekends my friend. Other than the impact on my social life, I actually like working on weekends precisely because of the lack of interruptions.
- I block off time on my calendar most days for work - it’s the only way I can get uninterrupted time.
In-house? Join the conversation on Fishbowl (anonymous).
