let's admit, nobody knows about t-1 firms t-2,3 to chod hee do. how to save on embarrassment when people say SA PA, ye kya hota hai, PA to assistant hota hai - partner kya hota hai? associate kya hota hai- t-1 konsi companies hai - really feel hopeless after putting so many years into the profession - this professional is not approved by aunties
If you go to London not only will aunties become mouthshut.com, but they will also become shaadi.com and their eligible daughters will become tinder.com. Alternatively, if you stay in India, you can choose to work as a lawyer for Microsoft and Google rather than CAM and SAM. That has more prestige. In fact, in the long run, that's where you may want to work anyway, as law firms have such a high attrition rate.
Law firms or Tier 1 law firms are not the be all and end all of the world.Thank heavens for that.And the common man runs from law firms like AZB,CAM,Trilegal.Tey see the Partners,PAs as scam artists.Even many a GC will tell you stories of how the law firms deliberately give wrong advice so that it could start and drag on a long litigation on matters that should have been settled and never gone to Court.
I come from a Tier 3 city. My entire neighbourhood thinks that I work for the fan company. I was once requested to get cheap quotes of fans for the colony's community centre, or if I could get fans directly shipped from the godown.
Yes, because it will take 8-10 days for me to explain what law firm is and why it is paying me so much... when other lawyers in neighbourhood earn in 4 figures
Maybe because litigation people are socially more relevant. Corp lawyers serve a very small bourgeoisie class and people don't give a crap if you acted in XYZ deal. Property wagera ke cases dekhte ho toh bataao?
Do you think T1 associates make more than IAS officers?! After accounting for total CTC including social security, pensions, housing, lifetime healthcare etc. you'd have to be a Partner (if you last that long) to make more money than a 'clean' civil servant (and almost no one in IPS, IRS is 'clean').
I have seen T1 partners running around delhi trying to find a decent school that'll give nursery admission to their kid while IAS officers get a red carpet to elite schools like sanskriti, sardar patel, dps rkp..
PA at T1 make 50-70L, IAS can easily clear 30-40L after a few years. That's just cash. No need to buy life insurance, health insurance, pay rent, save less for retirement etc. Less lifestyle costs as well - no need to show the financially successful image by driving mercs, wearing tissots etc
IAS officers even at junior level get humble dwellings but in posh areas. A PA would spend half his salary just on rent to get a south mumbai/delhi apartment.
When I told a relative that I work for a law firm. He in turn told to everyone else, that 'I' have left legal practice and joined a private company ..... "usse ho nahi paayi vakalat".
The answer is very simple. 90 percent of India does not stay in Metro cities. Consequently they have no idea about well paying private jobs or firms. When the word 'jobs' come to their mind all they know is government job and how nothing in the world pays more than civil services. But here is the trick you earn for yourself and NOT for the typical Indian uncle or aunty. Why do you need there validation? Their mouth anyways become shut when I bought my car within a year of job, my annual foreign trips and when I bought my home last year. All within 5 years of my T1 job. So they still do not know what a T1 firm is but they sure as hell know that whatever this man does pays well. Anyways I don't need their validation, neither should you. I will give you another example. I come from a small city. One of my cousin's became a police inspector. My uncle was like look at him he is so respectable and look at you doing some private job in some distant city. He really was being mean to me. But should I care about opinion of such "gawaars"?? For them even if you become a grade iii government servant it very good but doing a private job is menial. If I tell him my salary I am sure his mouth would have dropped open. But I just moved on from that conversation. So any educated person with some general knowledge would know about law schools and at least that coproate lawyers are one of the best earning professionals, as for those uncle and aunties who don't, just don't bother about them. We don't need anyone's validation.
I let it be like this.
All other are just court clerks.
I have seen T1 partners running around delhi trying to find a decent school that'll give nursery admission to their kid while IAS officers get a red carpet to elite schools like sanskriti, sardar patel, dps rkp..
IAS officers even at junior level get humble dwellings but in posh areas. A PA would spend half his salary just on rent to get a south mumbai/delhi apartment.