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Definitely would like to ask you more questions. I've been applying for in house positions for months, so far have received 6-7 rejections and no other responses.
I have decent experience and recently joined a tier 1 firm but now want to shift. I don't know where I'm going wrong. How do I contact you?

On salary, short answer is yes. Long answer is depends on what type of lifestyle you have, if you are staying in rent alone vs sharing, etc. I know that not all in-house positions are competitive therefore my advice is to not compromise too much on your comp.

I'm not well over a decade in the profession, out of which only my initial years were with a firm. The growth in any in-house position the same as a law firm, albeit at a slower pace. You go from Executive, AM, Manager, Sr Mgr, GM....

Looking back when most of friends in big law are definitely making more than me. But I have the luxury of going to sleep when I want to and the flexibility to spend time with my loved ones. If it's helpful, then I'm happy to an AMA.

I’ve realised this - if you aren’t happy you should quit - you may realise later you enjoyed the work but didn’t like the stress etc and you may move back to a more sustainable work life but when you are feeling the stress and feel like leaving, you should leave. Life is fairly long - kuch na kuch ho jayega

While there is knowledge in knowing that a 1000 people want to do what you do, there is wisdom in realising that perhaps one of those 1000 is not you.

Quitting a job like this is not really a question of "How?". It is a question of "Why?".

You need to be 100% confident in "Why?" you're quitting.

One smell test I always use is "Can I be honest with my boss about this reason?".

If the answer to that is no, then I suggest you think this over.

But if the answer is Yes, the day you should have quit was yesterday.

Hope this helps.

I've figured the WLB issue much earlier in my career. I graduated from NALSAR, joined a T1 firm and worked there for few years before doing my masters from abroad. The realization to change to in-house came after that. I looked at it as a lifestyle change, for which I 'paid' the cost of a lower salary. Dont regret it at all. Feel free to ask more questions.

Not just for the kind of firms you ask but for any type of organisation in any profession or industry, the single most important factor in my opinion is health.
If the job is damaging your health then it is time to resign.
If resignation is not affordable then prepare for permanent damage due to bad health.
You get no good ending anyways. So set your priorities and let your life revolve around them.
Money or health?

I quit my job in a couple of months. It was a hard time. After dropping for CLAT, after spending your 5 years at a T1 law school, anxiously preparing for day zero, getting placed on day zero, working in that high rise Mumbai building in a Big 6 firm, and then suddenly realizing that human beings are not supposed to slog this way.... to take shit from seniors and to stare at your screen from morning to night...continuously...clattering on the keyboard...just could not take it...no matter how much they pay me for this...some called it entitlement...people reminded me that I had a job that 1000 of others will die for to get into....and yet when I had all that, that I had dreamt for 5 years..I was just not happy...not satisfied.

Today I am working in a hybrid legal/strategy ops/risk management role in-house. I advise the CEO of the company on multiple things. I get decently paid although not as much as a law firm. But I am happy. Next month my boss is going to leave for another company. I am not sure how the life with the new boss would be. It will probably not be as good. But I am pretty sure it will never be as bad as that high rise stifling building in Mumbai made me feel.

I quit my job at a Tier 1 for the same reasons that you have mentioned. After about 2 months of doing absolutely nothing, and not being able to figure out what I actually want to do, I took up another job at another Tier 1 and almost immediately regretted it and I think about quitting almost every day. What I have realised is that I need to have a plan about what I am going to do once I quit again.

Anyone out there who joined a Tier 1 firm and realised pretty early that the better option is to have life experiences that don't involve staring into a laptop and having "it's the end of the world" deadlines for everything - albeit with a lesser salary - and to have time for yourself and loved ones? How do you quit after you get the job 100, nay, 1000 other people want? Because of course you are replaceable. Is it something one regrets afterwards? Any personal experiences of getting the job and quitting early? Please share!