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Finding a Practice Area that Suits You Brings On Job Satisfaction
[00:00:00] In your experience, how much does practice area have on job satisfaction, burnout?
The practice area you're in on the experiential happened. Different practice area will depend on your your skillset. And what's interesting to you and what's important to you. Some people very much enjoy litigation.
Some people very much enjoy criminal defense. Some people very much enjoy family law. Other people enjoy patent law real estate, and you have to really enjoy what you're doing. And then you have to be. In the right setting. I know people that are immigration attorneys and they love it.
I know other people that are immigration attorneys and think the work is very boring. I know other people that are litigators and they can't get enough of it. They think it's the most frickin exciting thing in the world. And I know other people that are completely burned out and stressed by it.
So all this, the answers to your questions, they all really depend on you. And what appeals to you and then doing it in the environment that matters. So if you work in a big city, many times in New York or Chicago, [00:01:00] or even LA your experience has in different practice areas is going to be much different than it might be in a smaller market.
And it could lead to burnout. It could also be. Boredom in a smaller market, if you're not working on things that are very exciting. If you're in a small market, you may be suing people over dog bites and who know you can do that large market too, but it just depends. So you have to be what appeals to you, as a general rule.
I found that in the different practice areas that there are people that are very good and enjoy things that involve writing and analysis. And there are other people that enjoy writing analysis and arguing and fighting there's other people that enjoy science and math and there are other people that enjoy things like that and corporate law or real estate.
And the difference between different practice areas, I think it's, I think that most transactional attorneys tend to be people that do things like patent law or real estate or corporate. And they also tend to have been very good at math and science and gravitating towards that.
Most litigators tend to be very good [00:02:00] and interested in things like writing, reading history. So I, and then they get more satisfaction out of it, but you have to do something that you're excited about. And I think that, if there's a practice area that you really naturally gravitate towards, you should do it the wrong reason to do it, practice areas because it's the hot practice area, or you feel like you can make a lot of money, something has to appeal to you naturally about it.
And it has to be something that you gravitate towards naturally. And I don't know what that is, but for some people, family law and family law is very confrontational and it involves a lot of negotiation stuff. You just have to do what's right for you.
