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| Re: New gig |
HellaCool |
June 11, 2012 10:11 am |
I am well convinced returning to my outhouse gig would involve more hours and far more variability in schedule, but my pay would double and it's not like I am working light hours like I used to anymore. My inhouse job used to be a regular 8-6, M-F gig, with only an occasional few days or week here and there of grinding something out (which was a great relief from my last outhouse gig of working pretty much 9-8pm as a minimum on weekdays and then throwing in a late- or all-nighter 2-3 times aweek and a day on the weekend). Vacations were sacrosanct.
Now, my inhouse gig has become 8-6, go home and put kids to bed, then 8pm-11pm 3 nights a week, plus two weekends a month, plus constant vacation work. Sure, I got a pay raise but it is tiresome working hours that are starting to creep back into BIGLAW hours at a fraction of the paycheck.
of course, I hear from my former BIGLAW colleagues that their workloads have gotten steeper in the years since I left, so maybe this is just part of the general trend of all employers finding ways to "do more with less" (which is my new hated corporate-speak phrase -- in theory it means enhancing employee producitivy by giveng them more tools to do work faster; in reality it means everyone works a lot harder).
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