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Desert Fox wrote:

SBL wrote:Bow nuss?

I can't find my thread, but I think I only have 25 left to boneanus. But I can't stop working. I'll prboably hit my limit by wednesday monring,.

I feel you man I'm getting reamed right now.

Desert Fox wrote:

SBL wrote:Bow nuss?

I can't find my thread, but I think I only have 25 left to boneanus. But I can't stop working. I'll prboably hit my limit by wednesday monring,.

for all the 0Ls playing along at home, thats like 500 hours in 5 weeks. thats probably more work than 50% of full time employed people will do in a year. good luck man. dont die.

JohannDeMann wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

SBL wrote:Bow nuss?

I can't find my thread, but I think I only have 25 left to boneanus. But I can't stop working. I'll prboably hit my limit by wednesday monring,.

for all the 0Ls playing along at home, thats like 500 hours in 5 weeks. thats probably more work than 50% of full time employed people will do in a year. good luck man. dont die.

10 hours a week seems a little low for 50% of full time people...
But still, that's an ungodly amount of work that I would wish on no one.

EzraFitz wrote:

JohannDeMann wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

SBL wrote:Bow nuss?

I can't find my thread, but I think I only have 25 left to boneanus. But I can't stop working. I'll prboably hit my limit by wednesday monring,.

for all the 0Ls playing along at home, thats like 500 hours in 5 weeks. thats probably more work than 50% of full time employed people will do in a year. good luck man. dont die.

10 hours a week seems a little low for 50% of full time people...
But still, that's an ungodly amount of work that I would wish on no one.

1 billable hour != 1 hour spent at work.

The average California state worker spends like 31 hours a week on Facebook, 4 hours a week aggressively gaining weight, and 5 hours a week actually working, so 500 billable hours might be a high estimate.

SBL wrote:

EzraFitz wrote:

JohannDeMann wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

SBL wrote:Bow nuss?

I can't find my thread, but I think I only have 25 left to boneanus. But I can't stop working. I'll prboably hit my limit by wednesday monring,.

for all the 0Ls playing along at home, thats like 500 hours in 5 weeks. thats probably more work than 50% of full time employed people will do in a year. good luck man. dont die.

10 hours a week seems a little low for 50% of full time people...
But still, that's an ungodly amount of work that I would wish on no one.

1 billable hour != 1 hour spent at work.

The average California state worker spends like 31 hours a week on Facebook, 4 hours a week aggressively gaining weight, and 5 hours a week actually working, so 500 billable hours might be a high estimate.

yep. ask your non-law friends how much of the work day they actually work. i think youll be surprised at the number of 10-25% answers.

SBL wrote:

EzraFitz wrote:

JohannDeMann wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

SBL wrote:Bow nuss?

I can't find my thread, but I think I only have 25 left to boneanus. But I can't stop working. I'll prboably hit my limit by wednesday monring,.

for all the 0Ls playing along at home, thats like 500 hours in 5 weeks. thats probably more work than 50% of full time employed people will do in a year. good luck man. dont die.

10 hours a week seems a little low for 50% of full time people...
But still, that's an ungodly amount of work that I would wish on no one.

1 billable hour != 1 hour spent at work.

The average California state worker spends like 31 hours a week on Facebook, 4 hours a week aggressively gaining weight, and 5 hours a week actually working, so 500 billable hours might be a high estimate.

Haha, I guess I never think of non-lawyers as having "billable" hours, but I get what you mean if we mean actual productivity. I'm curious, the higher a lawyer's billables per week become, do they become more efficient? I'm assuming if you're billing 100 hour weeks you're spending a LOT less time screwing around than even a 70 hour billing week.

ETA: I kind of just equated everyone to my mother, who is a nurse, who doesn't sit down most days at work. I realize now that most jobs are not like this.

If you billed 100 hours in a week, you're either lying or dead.

you can live like 7-11 days without sleep. so its possible. it just sucks.

What's your trick to falling asleep quickly? It's hard to fall asleep right when you get home, and thinking about how little sleep you're going to get makes it worse. I've struggled a lot with this, though I never had a 3 hour night (just 3 hours of sleep).

I'd love if I could get to 190 min of sleep, but for some reason my sleep amount has stayed flat at about 160 min for awhile. Hasn't kept up with my increasing work load.

SBL wrote:If you billed 100 hours in a week, you're either lying or dead.

I don't see how 100 hrs is possible. I can see 70-80 though.

Hutz_and_Goodman wrote:

SBL wrote:If you billed 100 hours in a week, you're either lying or dead.

I don't see how 100 hrs is possible. I can see 70-80 though.

I've seen 100. These people have a different level of drive and stamina. I'm a hard worker, and at 70 I lose the ability to remember where my keys are.

14 billable hour days are beyond terrible. Generally that means I got to work at 6:30 and left around 10:00. An entire week of those is only 98 hours...

SBL wrote:14 billable hour days are beyond terrible. Generally that means I got to work at 6:30 and left around 10:00. An entire week of those is only 98 hours...

yeah so throw one all nighter in there. people in biglaw pull all nighters.

You have an hours bonus requirement? How ttt bro

(Altho don't those kind of let you bill less than you otherwise might?)

EzraFitz wrote:

SBL wrote:

EzraFitz wrote:

JohannDeMann wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

SBL wrote:Bow nuss?

I can't find my thread, but I think I only have 25 left to boneanus. But I can't stop working. I'll prboably hit my limit by wednesday monring,.

for all the 0Ls playing along at home, thats like 500 hours in 5 weeks. thats probably more work than 50% of full time employed people will do in a year. good luck man. dont die.

10 hours a week seems a little low for 50% of full time people...
But still, that's an ungodly amount of work that I would wish on no one.

1 billable hour != 1 hour spent at work.

The average California state worker spends like 31 hours a week on Facebook, 4 hours a week aggressively gaining weight, and 5 hours a week actually working, so 500 billable hours might be a high estimate.

Haha, I guess I never think of non-lawyers as having "billable" hours, but I get what you mean if we mean actual productivity. I'm curious, the higher a lawyer's billables per week become, do they become more efficient? I'm assuming if you're billing 100 hour weeks you're spending a LOT less time screwing around than even a 70 hour billing week.

ETA: I kind of just equated everyone to my mother, who is a nurse, who doesn't sit down most days at work. I realize now that most jobs are not like this.

Nurses work super hard for their whole 12 hour shift. But they work 3 of those in a week and don't have to think about work once they clock out.

Anonymous User wrote:What's your trick to falling asleep quickly? It's hard to fall asleep right when you get home, and thinking about how little sleep you're going to get makes it worse. I've struggled a lot with this, though I never had a 3 hour night (just 3 hours of sleep).

Get a Lunesta prescription. It's like Ambien but with a shorter half life, so you can take it, sleep 3 hours, and not be a complete zombie when you wake up. Or buy some liquid melatonin and take it right before you leave work. By the time you get home you'll be good and sleepy.

Melatonin works amazingly for me.

The bitterest irony of the bigflaw all nightwear is that more often than not I'm so fried the next day that I hardly bill at all and the two day total is basically the equivalent of two regular work days.