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leaving BIGLAW for BIGFED. taking questions
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Date: January 31st, 2015 11:58 AM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221381) |
Date: January 31st, 2015 12:00 PM Author: very tactful corner ceo Tips on doing this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221385) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:04 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge When you apply on usajobs, incorporate as many exact phrases from the job posting into your resume as you can. It sounds dumb, but this is the only way to get past the first round review by HR idiots who don't know what to look for except the exact language from the posting.
Network like crazy. Have coffee with everyone you know who works in fedgov, or who knows someone who works in fedgov. Take up everyone who offers to put you in touch with anyone they know in fedgov. It's really annoying but this is a huge part of how this shit works. |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:17 PM Author: snowy electric set cuckoldry can I network with you? willing 2 OUT myself to do it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221458) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:30 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Maybe? I haven't even started yet though. Quotation mark pumo below you might be a better bet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221529) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:00 PM Author: Lascivious corn cake rehab y (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221386) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:06 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge 9-6 every day, every other friday off, $135k to start, great job security. Can't wait to get my fucking weekends/life back. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221403) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:16 PM Author: vermilion doobsian striped hyena blood rage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221456) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:14 PM Author: buff stain jew Congrats man. I went straight to BIGFED out of school with the plan to go to the private sector after 2-3 years. Now I am coming up on year #5 in BIGFED and have no intention of ever leaving. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221447) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:21 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Ty. You made the right choice. This would have been my 5th year in BIGLAW and it's absolutely miserable. I've wanted to move to BIGFED for years now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221473) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:22 PM Author: buff stain jew I actually didn't pursue BIGFED until I got dinged from BIGLAW. It was my backup plan. Sometimes I think about the fact that if I did get BIGLAW, I'd have washed out of it by now.
I telework on Fridays now, it is a 180 perk. |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:28 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge The telework, alternate work week, 9 hour days...all 180 perks. My standards are so low after BIGLAW though. I'm thrilled with any job that doesn't make me leave my brother's wedding reception early to finish a fucking memo for a dickhead client who won't even read it for another week. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221507) |
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Date: February 1st, 2015 11:51 PM Author: Balding locus This^thiz (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27233555) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:17 PM Author: awkward passionate location wrinkle will you date more (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221461) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:30 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge In a relationship, so no. Will socialize more in general though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221521) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:25 PM Author: charcoal parlour pocket flask Congrats breh.
Will you be doing interesting work? DC? Sounds like an agency not doj. |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:29 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Yeah, DC. I actually think the work is gonna be great. Don't want to out myself but it's a cool agency that actually gets shit done, and I'm in a great division. So not just pushing paper (hopefully). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221517) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:45 PM Author: opaque cerebral affirmative action hominid I was opposite fema on a case once. It was like the entire agency was made of people that were utterly ashamed of working there. They also sucked at their jobs. They really met the negative stereotype of lazy and incompetent government workers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221621) |
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Date: February 1st, 2015 4:55 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Yeah FEMA seems like one of the worst agencies to work at, on par with the VA. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27229667) |
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Date: February 1st, 2015 5:57 PM Author: Mind-boggling kink-friendly field I mean, it's FEMA. It's an agency that does a bunch of thankless work and only gets criticized and even when they do well, it's always Katrina. Always. I would hate being there, too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27230184) |
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Date: January 31st, 2015 12:43 PM Author: opaque cerebral affirmative action hominid I always dreamed of being an ausa. Now I have an interview at one of the top offices and a bunch of suburban fucks that subscribe to the serial podcast are raining on my parade. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27221606) |
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Date: February 6th, 2015 12:33 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27261543) |
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Date: February 1st, 2015 5:03 PM Author: twinkling main people death wish what are you most looking forward to in the new job? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27229721) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2015 8:42 AM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Not billing hours. Also, leaving at 6. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27234768) |
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Date: February 1st, 2015 5:53 PM Author: Vibrant Windowlicker National I am a senior associate at one of the big labor & employment firms. Being put up for partner next year. I like the firm and love the work, but the pay kinda sucks (I make 170 plus a shitty bonus). Fairly sure I could leave for the NLRB, because I have connections there. Would this be CR? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27230160) |
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Date: February 1st, 2015 5:57 PM Author: Mind-boggling kink-friendly field but ur kid will go hungry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27230189) |
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Date: February 1st, 2015 5:58 PM Author: Vibrant Windowlicker National Hmm. Wife makes like 90k. I think we would be ok. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27230198) |
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Date: February 1st, 2015 5:58 PM Author: Mind-boggling kink-friendly field GS-13?
why isn't she raising ur lil bugger u snarky POS don't be like that |
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Date: February 1st, 2015 8:11 PM Author: Vibrant Windowlicker National bro, why the hostility brother? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27231398) |
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Date: February 1st, 2015 11:24 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge If you don't hate it then why not ride it out and try to be partner? NLRB's a good back up though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27233341) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2015 10:14 AM Author: Vibrant Windowlicker National I've thought about it a lot and this is always where I come down. Although my pay isn't great for a large firm, it's way more than I'd get in gov. Dat job security would be nice tho (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27235056) |
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Date: April 15th, 2015 2:32 AM Author: cobalt adventurous tanning salon you're one year from partner ('consideration') and make less than a first year at troutman sanders lolwtf how do these L&E shitholes even get anyone to fill OCI slots? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27694520) |
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Date: April 15th, 2015 6:54 AM Author: Vibrant Windowlicker National Obviously they're getting people who wouldn't get a biglaw slot. The pay sucks, but you get to run your own cases early on and you aren't ground to death. We had a second year leave for a biglaw firm and he's working insane hours and doing doc review/writing memos. I get recruiter calls for biglaw jobs that id probably get because they're traditional labor but I never return them. I think the firm is catching wind of how the pay blows because I got a bump to 180 last week.
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Date: February 6th, 2015 12:37 PM Author: floppy space hissy fit Thoughts on the International Federation of Naked Bodybuilders, or IFNB? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27261561) |
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Date: February 6th, 2015 2:11 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Not going to google that at work. Sounds like a NAMBLA affiliate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27262267) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:22 PM Author: Flushed public bath travel guidebook Subsidiary actually (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057289) |
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Date: February 6th, 2015 2:12 PM Author: 180 wine milk Congrats on your GS-7 janitorial gig. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27262274) |
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Date: February 6th, 2015 2:28 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Ty. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27262413) |
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Date: March 4th, 2015 11:53 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Bumpin cause we got a snooow dayyy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27431911) |
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Date: March 4th, 2015 11:57 PM Author: Honey-headed coldplay fan Congrats, how does it feel to rejoin the living? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27431938) |
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Date: March 5th, 2015 12:01 AM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Thanks friend. It feels really good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27431971) |
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Date: March 5th, 2015 12:00 AM Author: indigo beady-eyed rigor dilemma Did we get one yet? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27431960) |
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Date: March 5th, 2015 12:01 AM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Not officially, but I'm banking on it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27431967) |
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Date: April 15th, 2015 1:04 AM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Three month update: everything about my life is immeasurably better. My health and social life are returning to pre-biglaw levels. My anxiety is basically gone. Almost every day is a good day. I feel like a whole new person.
Anyone out there considering ditching biglaw, do it as fast as you can and never look back. |
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Date: April 15th, 2015 1:09 AM Author: territorial concupiscible school cafeteria boistinker But D.C. is such a festering shit hole, and that's where roughly 99.273% of bigfed jobs are. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27694222) |
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Date: April 15th, 2015 1:11 AM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge You and I have different definitions of festering shithole. Obviously it not NYC, but so what? There's a reasonable amount of things to do and I can get a yard for my dog. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#27694230) |
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Date: April 15th, 2015 2:48 AM Author: territorial concupiscible school cafeteria boistinker NYC is a different type of shit hole.
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Date: June 6th, 2015 7:45 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge bump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057089) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:13 PM Author: Vibrant Windowlicker National Post ur salary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057217) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 9:05 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge $120,000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057544) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:15 PM Author: galvanic hairy legs bawdyhouse How are your coworkers?
Most of my in-house bros/chicks are chill, but one senior counsel (in another dept) is really fucking annoying. I think he has aspergers. |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 9:06 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge My immediate group is fantastic. All ex biglaw, smart and good at thier jobs but very chill. Larger division has some dicks it in, and some people engaged in pointless power struggles, but overall high quality lawyers and humans. Surprisingly little dead weight. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057552) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:25 PM Author: Flushed public bath travel guidebook I'm still biglaw and its fine. What was so bad about you biglaw you fucking Whiney bitch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057300) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 9:07 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge What year are you? In my experience it got exponentially worse year over year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057555) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:13 PM Author: Disgusting Menage What happens if there's a big project deadline and it's 5:59? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057219) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:23 PM Author: Flushed public bath travel guidebook I've always wondered this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057290) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 9:07 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Probably go home for the day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057558) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:21 PM Author: Flushed public bath travel guidebook Lol at fedmos. Im still biglaw and owning souls (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057273) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:27 PM Author: Vibrant Windowlicker National You're wasting your life. So are bigfed bros but they spend less time doing so (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057309) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:31 PM Author: Flushed public bath travel guidebook 300k this year makes it worth it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057331) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:38 PM Author: Vibrant Windowlicker National you seem like a gigantic faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057365) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:39 PM Author: Flushed public bath travel guidebook If I weren't employed/earning an income what would I be doing with my life exactly? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057371) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 8:45 PM Author: Vibrant Windowlicker National Being a faggot, so I guess you might as well stick with the high paying job (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057408) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 9:10 PM Author: charcoal parlour pocket flask Advisory role or litigating? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057571) |
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Date: June 6th, 2015 9:16 PM Author: glittery dragon indian lodge Advisory. Pretty interesting niche actually but I don't want to outself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28057614) |
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Date: June 12th, 2015 11:40 AM Author: Mind-boggling kink-friendly field aren't attorney-advisor roles FLAME and fake attorneys and everyone thinks of u as a second class BITCH (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2796196&forum_id=2#28101822) |