Dear counsel,
My name is Lady Esquire. You do not know me, and rest assured, you never shall. But if you are currently reading this, chances are we are more alike than either of us realize. I am an unhappy — or, rather, unsatisfied — lawyer. I have recently made the decision to *try* and leave the law to pursue greener pastures elsewhere, the locations of which are currently unknown to me. This blog shall serve as a sort of public diary where I can document my thought processes, the highs and lows, and updates as I embark on a journey to transition to a more creative, less traditional career. By making my journey public, I am also hoping to collaborate (and commiserate) with anybody out there who may be going through the same thing.
So, if anything you read on my page strikes a chord with you, please tell me about it by navigating to my submissions page. Feel free to submit anything and everything; whether it be suggestions on new things to try or career paths to consider, something you have been struggling with in your legal job, questions, hate, what you dreamed last night, you name it.
Now here is a bit of background to my story. It all started on a warm summer day in 1997 when a screaming bundle of joy came into this world. Jk. It all started about a few weeks ago when I learned that I was smack dab in the middle of my Saturn Return. This realization hit me like a ton of bricks because I had been feeling like something was just off since, well, I started law school. Since graduating, I have bounced around to a few different firms, thinking the reason I hated my life was because I didn’t like who I was working with, I wasn’t making enough money, etc. But now that I am with a firm that I really really love, that pays me well, and that offers me a reasonable work life balance, I’m still pretty miserable. So that leaves me with one conclusion: I just hate being an attorney.
After some soul searching and a few career assessments, I realized the only thing I have ever been passionate about is acting, comedy, creating, and performing. I just never saw a future with such a career and I have always craved stability and prestige, so I listened to my mom (also a former lawyer) and just dove in. Now, I’m $200k in debt and trying to decide whether I should do the smart thing and just put my head down and keep going because I’ve already come this far, or whether I should do the brave thing and do what I really love to do. The answer remains to be seen, my friends. That being said, I invite you to follow along with me, a girl her late twenties trying to figure her shit out. Bienvenue!