Consultant's New Take on 'Exhausted': I'm Tired, Too, But Still Working
Following up on her earlier, much-read advice to “Exhausted,” an overworked associate who was thinking about quitting and taking a vacation, legal consultant Ann Israel responds to an unidentified reader who apparently thinks she has it easy because her own name is on the door.
She and the legal recruiters who work for her are suffering from the difficult economy, too, Israel writes in a New York Lawyer (reg. req.) column.
Law firms aren’t hiring much, but the consulting company’s overhead costs are the same, she points out. And, as the person whose name is on the door, she’s the one who has to figure out how to do more with less.
“Like Exhausted, there are times when I am so worried and exhausted that I throw my hands up and would just like to quit and take some time off,” Israel writes.
But if she did, Israel predicts, she would lose more than she gained from the respite of rest and relaxation.
“You can’t just take some time off because you are tired,” she says, “and then expect your profession to welcome you back with open arms.”
Earlier coverage:
ABAJournal.com: “Forget St. Barts and Be Grateful You’re Working, Columnist Tells ‘Exhausted’”
