Any ex lawyers who can offer advice

[ttyggg]

I moved into risk and compliance recently from private practice (for all the usual reasons about billing targets, work life balance etc.)

It's a good job and my hours are better but I am bored sometimes and I think I'm mad but I miss advising clients.

Anyone else gone back?

I did the same move and have the exact quandary pretty much daily. I moved 10 years ago!

I stay because it fits with my family life, which has a few challenges. There's always SOMETHING which makes staying the right thing to do. Health issues, elderly parent, difficult school year...

I miss the feeling of urgency and the thanks from grateful clients when you've solved their problem. This run of the mill (but necessary) stuff just doesn't cut it in the same way.

But I need the easy job now and may always need it.

This is exactly it for me!

The hours are fine most of the time, it's flexible and so far works around DC but I am just not stimulated by it.

I miss getting to the bottom of a difficult problem or drafting some bespoke.

I just don't know. Admittedly I haven't been there long but I feel strangely confined by the role.

I moved from what had become a boring part time role (boring because the work was limited by being part time) in a law firm to a part time in house role in a company. I like it - loads of drafting, no targets. Would that be a possibility? What area were you in the law firm?

I was incentives/tax so I'm not sure it's that easy to go in house from there?

I guess I miss actually being a lawyer - never thought I'd say that!

It's difficult to go from being really needed professionally to being an under appreciated essential doing all the things that let others fly.
I feel my place in work is the same as my place at home - in the background, doing the grunt work. It's not a great feeling. I'm hoping my time will come!