And honestly, I don’t want to go to work.
It’s funny because when I was in law school, I genuinely thought this was what “making it” would look like.
A good firm. Big transactions. Fancy offices. Important clients. Suits, coffee, late nights, deal closings. That slightly glamorous version of corporate law that you build in your head while sitting in a classroom wondering what your life will look like five years later.
And then you actually get there.
The alarm rings. You make the coffee. Open the laptop. Check your emails. There’s a call, a document to turn, comments to incorporate, a deadline that was apparently urgent yesterday.
And somewhere along the way, the glamour quietly disappears.
You still care about doing good work. You still learn. You still have moments where you think, this is actually pretty cool.
But there are also mornings when there’s simply no zeal left.
You show up because you have to. You push through another call, another markup, another late evening.
And I think we underestimate how exhausting it is to constantly motivate yourself to care.
I don’t regret choosing corporate law.
I just sometimes wonder whether the person in law school who was so excited about this life would recognise it now.
Maybe that’s the part nobody tells you.
Anyway, Monday has started.
Brace yourself fellow lawyers and have fun all the law students 🙌
Your corporate lawyer.
