Show's over and it's all a blur
6 weeks, 4 companies, 7 agreements, 8 all-nighters, 9 archlever disclosures and $5 million later, the deal has closed and somewhere in Singapore today is a Chinese businessman who is very very rich and very very happy. I just found another white hair on my head, and it's probably because of this project.
In other news, the client have another deal for us and they would like to complete due diligence, negotiate documents and close by 28 Feb. Fantastic. Once that deal completes, all the hair on my head will either be black (having grown out from the last time I coloured it) or snow white.
In other news, I found my little "Printy Trodat" date chop which is one of the few things I've brought with me from office to office since my very first job in a law firm till now. That and the Hello Kitty stapler which has managed to survive the scourge of office petty theft and pilfering that has robbed me of countless items of stationery through the years.
Faced a bunch of law students earlier this week for 1 hour. It was great. Like a spa treatment, except no soothing music and no masseuse with large oily hands. It's such a relief to talk to people for an hour who don't have a commercial agenda, who are so relaxed, who can take time to think through legal issues without the constant pressure of time, deadlines, fee caps and bill collections. Can't believe that I used to be one of them, and what I wouldn't give to be sitting there listening instead of standing up speaking, with the pressure of having to complete what I am saying by 2.30 pm sharp because negotiation meetings resume in Suntec at 2.45 pm sharp. Plus the client wants to have a word with me before it starts, so he'll be there by 2.35 pm. Short of a telepod or a winged chariot descending from the heavens in a blaze of light, that is not going to happen.
What the hell did I do in Law School? Why did I feel so stressed the whole time? I have no idea.
Actually, why did I go to Law School? Oh yes. Because I didn't know working life was going to be like THIS.
posted by HairyDonut @ Thursday, February 15, 2007
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15 Comments:
"Relax and enjoy"... Good advice there from Mr Spammer.
Your job sounds just like mine apart from the long hours, concentration and multitasking required, the total stress and huge financial significance.
And the fact that E@L spends all day blogging and surfing the net, not like some other hard working expats...oh that would be me. ~grin~
But at least you live in "interesting times", and it probably beats being bored to death.
I did my expenses after all today - made 3k. Plus my hospital insurance is paying about 8K bsck from my knee op. And did I mention the sugar commodities? Call that not working hard?
I may not be a stressed out super smart lawyer, but I'm raking in the big money. Um, as expense refunds for money I'd already spent.
Do'h!
yes.. and all the law students are now currently reading ur blog.
what happened to the blue chip stock?
http://smootie.blogspot.com/2006/11/its-blue-chip-stock.html
ah...hindsight is always 6/6...bet that wasn't your answer when you first went to law school. =)
maybe a few more years and you can go into lecturing?
It's still a blue chip! The pay is good. The hours are not good.
I can't be a lecturer. It takes too much to put yourself out there, day after day.
E&L: Mr Spammer is driving me nuts. Happy Up and Coming 50th Birthday, from all of us at Smoot & Co!
Indy: Thanks for dropping by! Always nice to get a visit from a celeb :)
Great blog. Kind of reminds me of why I left legal private practice and went into academia. But lately, I've been thinking of going back into practice (because I miss it? because academia also comes with its own bucket load of shit?).
just poking my head in to say happy new year and i see such a mess in here! keep that pretty chin up and bounce that stress off like pingpong balls...
and all these spammers need to die a horrible death as well.
*cookies and <3*
found something here about blocking blog spam:
http://www.onetipaday.com/2007/02/16/reduce-wordpress-spam-by-creating-fake-comment-forms-for-spam-bots/
also, i believe it also help to include those boxes that ask you to type the funny letters in a picture.
*laughing* spam can sometimes be so strangely appropriate :)
stress is like expenditure and use of space - it expands to fill up whatever there is :) you think law school is stressful but then you get out there and suddenly level 10 becomes level 100 ^^;;;
i think there's stress in every job and path, but it's probably relative. i mean, do you think monks in a retreat monastery get stressed? they probably do (i'm SURE there must be SOME bitchery goin' on there, c'mon...) and to them it would be stressful because they're used to a lower baseline level..
if i went back to what i used to do i think i'd probably start bleeding out of my ears within a day. i bitch about my work and stress *now*, but i've forgotten what it _used_ to be like before.
and i have no idea what i'm rambling about :} have to conduct an interview in a little while so i'm killing time with verbal diarrhea :)
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Hope it will always be alive! THE END :)
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