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Sure there's pressure to make targets and build your own book. In a Tier 1 firm like the one i work with there's generally enough work going around for you to make targets and the actual execution work is mostly done by the associates again.
If you have/build a good team (which is the real clincher honestly) and are generally competent, clients will keep coming back to you and the book gets built.
You have more flexibility with respect to work hours and the ability to take time off to be there for your kids and weekends are more free.
Honestly, law firms are pyramids and it's worst at the bottom. Salaried partner is like the second or third highest rung of the pyramid (depending on whether you're at a promoter run firm or not) and it's amongst the best places to be in a law firm, honestly.
It reminds me that the only thing standing between justice and injustice is my corporate law firm.
That's how
And yet the usual response is that you are paid for this, or that you chose this path. But sometimes I find myself wondering if I really chose all of it in the way it turned out....
If I may ask, why do you continue on this path?
The obvious answer is money, but surely at your level you must have enough saved up to switch to a less intense yet well paid job (maybe not as well paying as your current one but well paying nonetheless), in order to gain some extra time to spend with your family and your child, especially in his formative years.
Is there any particular reason you choose to go on like this?
Wishing you the very best!