It’s hard to admit, but I am very unhappy at my job. While I love being an attorney and I absolutely love a lot of aspects of my job, I don’t like a main component of my job.
I am doing a great job and have received excellent feedback from my boss with praise and an increase in complex work. I am consistently asked for my input and feedback on changes going on in the office. I am still part of the new attorney hiring committee. But at the end of the day . . . I am unhappy.
I have weighed the pros and cons of what I am required to do on a daily basis and I have decided this is not the field of law I want to practice in. The problem arises, however, it is a field I have worked in for the past 12 years! I have literally no experience in the field I want to be in and it is hard to “jump ship” when you don’t have anywhere to land. That is what is holding me to my current job . . . security.
How do you balance the things you love against the things you hate in your job? I don’t know. But this is the year I find out which way the scale tips.
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