Career Advice Request

[4826monongahela]

Stay in sales, you can move up to run a sales dept if you want then become CEO, esp if you like start-ups. Nothing limiting a very strong sales rep. You’ll probably make more $. If you’re very good at sales, you’ll likely make more than avereage corporate lawyer. Several folks I’ve worked with and learned from have gone this route, 3 have ultimately become CEO’s of SMB company. As you progress, you’ll learn contracts law a bit anyway.

Don’t recommend learning Chinese unless you are really, really in love with it & committed to working very hard and very long hours for a long time with large sacrifices. Chinese is very hard to learn and it’s not just language – there is culture, way of thinking, living and many years of developing contacts and trusting relationships before you will even come close to an even field with others who were born & brought up 1/2 & 1/2. Northern Asia is much different from doing business in NA, SA or EMEA, and “China” has many different regions each with different languages, cultures, etc which are all in turn much different from JP & KR. You need to really want to “go native” and jump in for a few decades, or forget it. It ain’t like a gringo living in SA for a bunch of yrs, learning language, culture and making contacts and then off you go doing business. It’s harder/takes longer.

[bjensen]

Despite what Jack Welsh has to say about learning Chinese, I agree with you all. There are far to many nuances especially in China. Brazil was bad enough when I used to do business/live there and I spent 4 years getting accustomed.

I would stay in sales, but just because I am good at it doesn’t help much when the fire is no longer there. Sales is kind of like being in Marines. You are always on the front lines. Some people are made for the Marines. Some are made for sales. I’m probably not made for either. It’s too bad, because I know I am leaving really good money. If it was a monetary decision only, I would probably stay in sales. But you only get one life you know…

[bjensen]

Despite what Jack Welsh has to say about learning Chinese, I agree with you all. There are far to many nuances especially in China. Brazil was bad enough when I used to do business/live there and I spent 4 years getting accustomed.

I would stay in sales, but just because I am good at it doesn’t help much when the fire is no longer there. Sales is kind of like being in Marines. You are always on the front lines. Some people are made for the Marines. Some are made for sales. I’m probably not made for either. It’s too bad, because I know I am leaving really good money. If it was a monetary decision only, I would probably stay in sales. But you only get one life you know…

[bjensen]

Despite what Jack Welsh has to say about learning Chinese, I agree with you all. There are far to many nuances especially in China. Brazil was bad enough when I used to do business/live there and I spent 4 years getting accustomed.

I would stay in sales, but just because I am good at it doesn’t help much when the fire is no longer there. Sales is kind of like being in Marines. You are always on the front lines. Some people are made for the Marines. Some are made for sales. I’m probably not made for either. It’s too bad, because I know I am leaving really good money. If it was a monetary decision only, I would probably stay in sales. But you only get one life you know…

[bjensen]

Despite what Jack Welsh has to say about learning Chinese, I agree with you all. There are far to many nuances especially in China. Brazil was bad enough when I used to do business/live there and I spent 4 years getting accustomed.

I would stay in sales, but just because I am good at it doesn’t help much when the fire is no longer there. Sales is kind of like being in Marines. You are always on the front lines. Some people are made for the Marines. Some are made for sales. I’m probably not made for either. It’s too bad, because I know I am leaving really good money. If it was a monetary decision only, I would probably stay in sales. But you only get one life you know…

[bjensen]

Despite what Jack Welsh has to say about learning Chinese, I agree with you all. There are far to many nuances especially in China. Brazil was bad enough when I used to do business/live there and I spent 4 years getting accustomed.

I would stay in sales, but just because I am good at it doesn’t help much when the fire is no longer there. Sales is kind of like being in Marines. You are always on the front lines. Some people are made for the Marines. Some are made for sales. I’m probably not made for either. It’s too bad, because I know I am leaving really good money. If it was a monetary decision only, I would probably stay in sales. But you only get one life you know…

[bjensen]

Would any of you attorneys who responded be willing to field a call/email from me for a little more advice at some point? I promise to set up a time with you so I don’t cut into your billables! 🙂

If so, would you email me your contact information?

[email protected]

Thanks for all your help!

[bjensen]

Would any of you attorneys who responded be willing to field a call/email from me for a little more advice at some point? I promise to set up a time with you so I don’t cut into your billables! 🙂

If so, would you email me your contact information?

[email protected]

Thanks for all your help!

[bjensen]

Would any of you attorneys who responded be willing to field a call/email from me for a little more advice at some point? I promise to set up a time with you so I don’t cut into your billables! 🙂

If so, would you email me your contact information?

[email protected]

Thanks for all your help!

[bjensen]

Would any of you attorneys who responded be willing to field a call/email from me for a little more advice at some point? I promise to set up a time with you so I don’t cut into your billables! 🙂

If so, would you email me your contact information?

[email protected]

Thanks for all your help!

[bjensen]

Would any of you attorneys who responded be willing to field a call/email from me for a little more advice at some point? I promise to set up a time with you so I don’t cut into your billables! 🙂

If so, would you email me your contact information?

[email protected]

Thanks for all your help!

[HarryBosch]

Jensen,

I have some attorneys in the family tree. None of them went to brand name recognition law schools. All are doing very well for themselves with incomes ranging from $250K to $1M+.

The ones doing very well have their own law practice. One of them has no attorneys working for him other than himself – he practices in the workers comp field, which, even though the laws are not as favorable to workers comp claims as they once were, he still earns a very high standard of living. The other attorney in our family who has his own law practice does have several attorneys working for him. He handles corporate bankruptcies and during bad times he does especialy well. The dot com bust era was a boom for his business.

To summarize, if you want to practice (lucrative) law, follow the money 🙂

But above all, as others have said before, do what you enjoy and success will follow.

Not earth shattering but definately words of wisdom.

[HarryBosch]

Jensen,

I have some attorneys in the family tree. None of them went to brand name recognition law schools. All are doing very well for themselves with incomes ranging from $250K to $1M+.

The ones doing very well have their own law practice. One of them has no attorneys working for him other than himself – he practices in the workers comp field, which, even though the laws are not as favorable to workers comp claims as they once were, he still earns a very high standard of living. The other attorney in our family who has his own law practice does have several attorneys working for him. He handles corporate bankruptcies and during bad times he does especialy well. The dot com bust era was a boom for his business.

To summarize, if you want to practice (lucrative) law, follow the money 🙂

But above all, as others have said before, do what you enjoy and success will follow.

Not earth shattering but definately words of wisdom.

[HarryBosch]

Jensen,

I have some attorneys in the family tree. None of them went to brand name recognition law schools. All are doing very well for themselves with incomes ranging from $250K to $1M+.

The ones doing very well have their own law practice. One of them has no attorneys working for him other than himself – he practices in the workers comp field, which, even though the laws are not as favorable to workers comp claims as they once were, he still earns a very high standard of living. The other attorney in our family who has his own law practice does have several attorneys working for him. He handles corporate bankruptcies and during bad times he does especialy well. The dot com bust era was a boom for his business.

To summarize, if you want to practice (lucrative) law, follow the money 🙂

But above all, as others have said before, do what you enjoy and success will follow.

Not earth shattering but definately words of wisdom.

[HarryBosch]

Jensen,

I have some attorneys in the family tree. None of them went to brand name recognition law schools. All are doing very well for themselves with incomes ranging from $250K to $1M+.

The ones doing very well have their own law practice. One of them has no attorneys working for him other than himself – he practices in the workers comp field, which, even though the laws are not as favorable to workers comp claims as they once were, he still earns a very high standard of living. The other attorney in our family who has his own law practice does have several attorneys working for him. He handles corporate bankruptcies and during bad times he does especialy well. The dot com bust era was a boom for his business.

To summarize, if you want to practice (lucrative) law, follow the money 🙂

But above all, as others have said before, do what you enjoy and success will follow.

Not earth shattering but definately words of wisdom.

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