Tolerating Your Lawyer Job While You're Preparing to Leave

About this episode

The episode discusses how lawyers can tolerate their current jobs while preparing to leave, focusing on different situations they may face.

There are two very different situations a lawyer can be in when they start thinking about leaving. One is a job that is actively damaging their mental, physical, and emotional health. The other is a job that is just not the long-term answer. What you do to tolerate either one while you're preparing to leave is going to look pretty different. The lawyers who come to Sarah after making a move that did not work out are usually the ones who waited until they were close to leaving to start thinkin...

People in this episode

Host: Sarah Cottrell

Topics covered

• lawyer job
• career transition
• mental health
• job satisfaction
• preparing to leave

Keywords

• lawyer
• career change
• mental health
• job transition
• tolerance
• preparation

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