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What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
If you could only have one, would you prefer to live in your first choice city/location, or have the sort of job you prefer (BigLaw/DA/BigFed/whatever)?
- kalvano
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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
Location. I would happily represent the most soulless, heartless, evil corporation for crap pay in a place I want to be.
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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
Luckily my preferred location, while not NYC, is a market-paying secondary city that has good legal jobs and great culture / sunshine. Sometimes you can have the best of both worlds 

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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
Despite the obvious location bias in legal recruiting, legal work is clearly not tech or finance where there generally aren't jobs to be had outside of a given region. If you find your dream job in a less than optimal city (i.e. New York), then it probably makes sense to take it for the short term.
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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
You know, I really though the clause "if you had to choose" would head off this sort of anoni-brag content-free posting, but in hindsight I should have known better.Anonymous User wrote:Luckily my preferred location, while not NYC, is a market-paying secondary city that has good legal jobs and great culture / sunshine. Sometimes you can have the best of both worlds
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- JamMasterJ
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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
Depends on the degree of concession in the other area. I wouldn't take an amazing job in Somalia, but I could be unemployed in a really nice place. However, for the most part, I'd pick job
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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
While you're young, job should precede location. History shows time and again that people have to uproot for work. Gold rush, railroad, tech boom, etc.
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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
Job. Which at this point means anything. I want to be a janitor for Jones Day.
- Grizz
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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
Dawg I'd take a jerb in Somalia. Untaxed, brah.JamMasterJ wrote:Depends on the degree of concession in the other area. I wouldn't take an amazing job in Somalia, but I could be unemployed in a really nice place. However, for the most part, I'd pick job
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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
It would depend on the number of hours worked. If its one of those jobs where you work 90 hours a week, then, you better like the job. If you work a normal amount of hours, then you better like the city.
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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
I'm sure the local warlord would take 90% off the top.Grizz wrote:Dawg I'd take a jerb in Somalia. Untaxed, brah.JamMasterJ wrote:Depends on the degree of concession in the other area. I wouldn't take an amazing job in Somalia, but I could be unemployed in a really nice place. However, for the most part, I'd pick job
Which really isn't that different from the U.S. government.
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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
Damn anonymous button.Anonymous User wrote:I'm sure the local warlord would take 90% off the top.Grizz wrote:Dawg I'd take a jerb in Somalia. Untaxed, brah.JamMasterJ wrote:Depends on the degree of concession in the other area. I wouldn't take an amazing job in Somalia, but I could be unemployed in a really nice place. However, for the most part, I'd pick job
Which really isn't that different from the U.S. government.
Also, since I neglected the initial question: job, definitely. Having lived all over the eastern half of the country, I've found that I can be happy just about anywhere.
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Re: What mattered/matters most to you: job or city?
Job. Location is irrelevant. I may be happier in some places than others, but I can find ways to be happy anywhere.
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