Time management as a lawyer
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 11:53 am
Hello.
So every now and then I hear about the sleep deprived lawyer, the overworked the lawyer, the this, that, the whatever. Spending a bazillion hours...
Let me just state my opinion, which is that if you cannot complete your stuff in between the hours of lets say like 11-4 3 days a week or so, you shouldn't be burning excess to fit in for a couple reasons.
1. There are people who better at your job than you and deserve to be there, instead of you.
2. There are people who are more like you doing other jobs and you will be more happy there, instead of where you are.
IMO 20 hours is the absolute max... that a person can really work a week, let alone... anything else... I mean there's only 24 hours in a day? It's kind of like people who want to get up earlier and earlier and earlier, well guess what this whole thing called time is like well think about it
Like if you get up at 5 AM and your one of those types, well I'm sorry but human biology is currently such that you are absolutely going to be tired by like 10 PM or so which means you don't get those hours, obviously.
I mean earlier than 5 AM? Again, I'm sorry, but you are basically just going to be considered a night owl by time and space and not the "early bird" you so desperately want. That's just night shift, are you a janitor? I guess you are.
My experience in legal profession in both law school and outside of law school, and well, to be honest with the "professional class" generally is the only people who are truly "happy" are the ones who just kind of accept these limitations and work within reason.
My experience with the people who are in the thousand hour category is that they tend to appreciate the things like the money, or, status, or, just, something, or maybe just the sense that this is really a better way to go about things, and so they stick with it as long as they can... but I guess I just am like you know you would still have money and, status, and, plenty of things, at like just a regular old jane or joe at Uncy John's law firm or whatever, and that's where a lot of these people end up anyway.
So what do you all think is a reasonable amount of actual work per week, not just fake filler time stuff, like a reasonable amount of time to invest, because honestly whenever I see absurd hours I just am like... how? Not just... why... but literally how... only 24 hours a day and all that.
So every now and then I hear about the sleep deprived lawyer, the overworked the lawyer, the this, that, the whatever. Spending a bazillion hours...
Let me just state my opinion, which is that if you cannot complete your stuff in between the hours of lets say like 11-4 3 days a week or so, you shouldn't be burning excess to fit in for a couple reasons.
1. There are people who better at your job than you and deserve to be there, instead of you.
2. There are people who are more like you doing other jobs and you will be more happy there, instead of where you are.
IMO 20 hours is the absolute max... that a person can really work a week, let alone... anything else... I mean there's only 24 hours in a day? It's kind of like people who want to get up earlier and earlier and earlier, well guess what this whole thing called time is like well think about it
Like if you get up at 5 AM and your one of those types, well I'm sorry but human biology is currently such that you are absolutely going to be tired by like 10 PM or so which means you don't get those hours, obviously.
I mean earlier than 5 AM? Again, I'm sorry, but you are basically just going to be considered a night owl by time and space and not the "early bird" you so desperately want. That's just night shift, are you a janitor? I guess you are.
My experience in legal profession in both law school and outside of law school, and well, to be honest with the "professional class" generally is the only people who are truly "happy" are the ones who just kind of accept these limitations and work within reason.
My experience with the people who are in the thousand hour category is that they tend to appreciate the things like the money, or, status, or, just, something, or maybe just the sense that this is really a better way to go about things, and so they stick with it as long as they can... but I guess I just am like you know you would still have money and, status, and, plenty of things, at like just a regular old jane or joe at Uncy John's law firm or whatever, and that's where a lot of these people end up anyway.
So what do you all think is a reasonable amount of actual work per week, not just fake filler time stuff, like a reasonable amount of time to invest, because honestly whenever I see absurd hours I just am like... how? Not just... why... but literally how... only 24 hours a day and all that.
