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Working in a law firm

by liyangsthoughts, posted in Anything and everything

I have been working at a law firm for 6 weeks now. What an interesting world it is! Everyday is different. Let me capture today.

  • Woke up 6:30, get ready for breakfast.
  • 7:45 everyone out of the house, drop off kids
  • 8:40 got into the office
  • 9-12pm emails, preparer documents, translate emails to clients who don’t speak English
  • 1pm found a little boy in the reception who was crying and looking for his mum, talked to him in Chinese and found his mum. Then kept him and his younger brother entertained, got them some biscuits, while their mum sorted out stuff
  • 1:30pm went to an event about e-commerce, payment, regulations around selling online
  • 2pm back to my desk, more emails, phone calls to clients to confirm meetings, follow up on their billing stuff
  • 3pm realised missed out on my child’s school learning day.
  • 4pm went back to the e-commerce event, learnt that TikTok ads can’t be more than 30 seconds, better have the CEO hold a phone talking about stupid things for 30 seconds than making it longer
  • 5pm on the way to pick up kids from school and daycare, traffic was mad, was late for pick up
  • 6pm dinner was take away sushi for kids, leftover for adults
  • 7pm kids played my phone to take a dancing video, they watched 30 mins TV then bedtime
  • 8pm did my home exercises after kids fell asleep, listened to podcast for 30 mins
  • 9pm got in my room opened my laptop and typing these words

Three things I learnt while working at a law firm:

  1. it is a fast paced high pressure environment
  2. professionals take their time very seriously, no wasted time for random chats
  3. if I want to stay in this place longer, need to find things truly add value to the firm and do them well

I am not sure how my network will be relevant to what I am doing now, but I do believe focus on doing everything to a good standard. Overtime, I will find my own pace and unique attribute to this place. I love the seriousness of the job, also it is a beautiful environment, filled with smart people.

I trust with time and patience, I will enjoy what I do more and more.