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However, seeing my peers at law firms earn so much, makes me really want to switch to a firm.
Litigation is also very unpredictable, but can be very cumbersome as well if you're in a drafting office.
I am still deliberating if going for a law firm (disputes or some niche field but getting demoted to a lower level) is worth the money and the stable growrh.
Since no disputes team of Tier 1 was ready to take me, I decided to give core litigation a shot and joined a litigation chamber in Delhi at 1/4th of my pay in Tier 1.
Its been two years now, and yesterday while catching up with one of my ex- colleagues who I worked with in Tier 1, he told me that he received his bonus letter and guess what, he received 3x my annual salary, in one shot. It made me think “Did I just commit a major fuck up of my life”
I enjoy what I do here. My current colleagues are lovely people. However, the mundaneness of life, churning out drafts day in and day out, pacifying unreasonable expectations of clients, running around in courts et al. makes me think about the choices I made in life. I tried my level best to apply in Tier 1 disputes- but for some reason best known to them, my resume always goes in the junk box.
And its not like that I have not done conventional things to make a good resume. I am from a Tier 1 NLU, my grades were good, I have done great moots and worked in Tier 1. I have even done great matters in litigation. But then this constant rejection has made me too much underconfident about myself. I feel like I am headed nowhere in life. My daily routine is moronic cycle of events where I am burning my midnight oil on weekends, but my corp friends are having a gala night on those weekends and are faring much better than me, financially. At the expense of sounding bitchy here, but I feel like I am a much better lawyer than them and I do not feel compensated enough for what I do.
I know litigation is marathon and yada yada. But I dont know what to do. Just feeling stuck.