Last year, after five years of working as a lawyer, I finally pulled the trigger and quit my job to try my hand at self-employment. It’s a decision that had been coming for a while but that was finally put down onto paper after I had a particularly rough day at work back in 2018. […]
Career
To The Class Of 2020 – Things Are Going To Be Bad, But You Might Come Out Better For It
I recently watched a video on YouTube from CNBC Make It entitled “What It’s Like To Graduate Into A Recession” and it got me thinking about my own experience graduating into a terrible recession. These students from the class of 2020 described the troubles they were facing. Many of them were moving back home with […]
Don’t Go To Grad School Just To Ride Out A Recession
One of the formative moments of my life was when I graduated from college back in 2009. This was right in the heart of the financial crisis, so in terms of timing, I probably couldn’t have graduated at a worse time. Like many of my cohorts in that graduating year, I ended up moving back […]
Five Financial Adjustments I Had to Make After Leaving Biglaw
Today, I have a guest post from Marissa Geannette, who writes over on her blog, The Unbillable Life. I discovered Marissa’s blog earlier this year and found her story to be very relatable. Like me, Marissa is also a former Biglaw attorney that made the jump to self-employment, moving off the clear, career path in […]
Graduating College Early – That’s Probably What I Should Have Done
When I look back at my college years, it often occurs to me that I probably should have tried graduating college early. I’ve always been a bit of an over-achiever. When I was in high school, I took every AP class that I could manage, ending up with 8 AP classes over the course of […]