Lateral - treated like I’m below my class year
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 5:10 pm
Just wanted to see if this is normal or not.
I’m a 3rd year (can’t believe almost 4th) corporate associate. I’ve been at my new firm for over two months now and I’ve been busy - hit over 200 hours last month. I didn’t really have a problem getting integrated.
The issue I’m dealing with is that there is nobody below my class year in the office/group. So, naturally, I’m the low man on the totem pole. What this means is I’m doing tasks a first or second year would do and I do very little substantive work. When I left my old firm, I was starting to run deals and draft primary docs.
Part of the reason why I left my old firm is I didn’t feel like I was developing appropriately for my experience. It was a very general practice so I very rarely did the same thing often, leading to bad growth. Here, I’m a bit more specialized (but definitely have my fingers in a lot of pies), but I’m doing low level work.
Now, I’m not an ambitious person. I’m just cruising til I get a good in house gig. So, doing menial tasks is kind of nice. It’s not a lot of stress and stuff I know how to do quite well. On the flip side, being the bottom b-word again sucks and I have no one to delegate to. And, I don’t really think I’m developing.
Is this normal in my situation because they’re still feeling me out to figure out what I can handle? Or is this just the natural consequence of being the most junior person?
I’m a 3rd year (can’t believe almost 4th) corporate associate. I’ve been at my new firm for over two months now and I’ve been busy - hit over 200 hours last month. I didn’t really have a problem getting integrated.
The issue I’m dealing with is that there is nobody below my class year in the office/group. So, naturally, I’m the low man on the totem pole. What this means is I’m doing tasks a first or second year would do and I do very little substantive work. When I left my old firm, I was starting to run deals and draft primary docs.
Part of the reason why I left my old firm is I didn’t feel like I was developing appropriately for my experience. It was a very general practice so I very rarely did the same thing often, leading to bad growth. Here, I’m a bit more specialized (but definitely have my fingers in a lot of pies), but I’m doing low level work.
Now, I’m not an ambitious person. I’m just cruising til I get a good in house gig. So, doing menial tasks is kind of nice. It’s not a lot of stress and stuff I know how to do quite well. On the flip side, being the bottom b-word again sucks and I have no one to delegate to. And, I don’t really think I’m developing.
Is this normal in my situation because they’re still feeling me out to figure out what I can handle? Or is this just the natural consequence of being the most junior person?