Are You Contemplating Career Suicide?

What you desperately need is a positive turn in your life. Picture yourself getting the brief that puts your name on the headlines. Picture people coming up to you and congratulating you on the way you are conducting things. Picture the media taking your interviews and asking you what you are going to do next. Would you still think of leaving your career? If the answer is still yes, then you should prepare yourself to do what you prefer. And if the answer is no, then you need to reassess your situation and try to work out new strategies to handle difficulties.

Don't think your situation to be unique. At any given time, close to 50% of workers in any field of work are not satisfied with their situation. There is nothing that guarantees that you will find work satisfaction in a new field of work, and that you will never find satisfaction while practicing law. Just answer yourself one question: Are there attorneys around you who have capabilities close to what you have, but are satisfied at their work? If the answer is yes, then again it is your duty to gain success and not give up. The break will come. It comes in every lawyer's career. Only you need to be prepared and capable to utilize the break when it comes, for it will never announce its arrival.

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Are you prepared to accept and superbly handle the dream brief if it came your way? If not, then get on your feet and start building yourself. That brief will come. Take my word for it. Every lawyer receives a break once in his or her lives. If they are ready to handle it at the time, then five years is sufficient to make the earnings of five generations. If they are unready, then they keep on carrying briefs for others the rest of their lives. Be ready. That is all you need to do. Be always at your prime.

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Some things that might help you to get in tune with your surroundings include:
 

• Toning down your expectations to realistic levels
• Ceasing all comparisons with others and concentrating on your own work
• Feeling pride in your work and describing what you do with pride to friends and family
• Showing respect and greeting people you meet at work including coworkers, seniors, juniors, legal staff, and clients,
• Killing the feeling that your present is due to a wrong choice in the past
• Recognizing that social networking and looking for work is as much a part of regular work for ace attorneys, as they are for any brie-fless newbie
• Understanding that briefs other than in your choice field can hold keys to success
• Understanding that people who deride and ridicule you today will praise you tomorrow if you could only learn to manage the situation
• Understanding that praising and appreciating others do not cost even half a penny but can change your world
• Understanding that false praise deceives nobody, but appreciation withheld in deserving situations creates hurt feelings
• Understanding that you really need to revamp you skills of social interaction and polish them

Hey, I have seen successful lawyers who never knew much of law, but were extremely sophisticated in social interaction. Other lawyers, as well as clients and officials enjoyed their company and they wanted their cases to be handled by that lawyer even though they were aware that he or she would not be pleading or preparing the case personally. Haven't you seen such lawyers? Find out the true English meaning of the word Attorney from common law times in Britain when it first came into existence. You will understand your role better. And may be have a long thought about your career. I wish I could have put a smiley in here. Cheers.