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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TCLA Community Assistant" data-source="post: 89077" data-attributes="member: 2672">1) I suspect some comments are from people who say they are, and others who like to pretend to be what they aren’t. Even if there aren’t some people on TCLA who can help, maybe look for alumni from your university now working in US firms and ask for their opinion via LinkedIn - at least that way you definitely know who you are speaking to and the reliability of what they say is a little more certain.2) Probably a bit of both but it has always been bad, even in times of “quieter” periods and before Covid. 3) The “competitive” culture in high performing students is part of the problem of why people think working for US/MC firms is the be all and end all. It sounds patronising, but ultimately people seek a lot of personal validation by being able to say they are working in a certain type of role with a high profile organisation. They want to be associated with the prestige and see that as success in life. Many people realise it isn’t worth it in time and especially if your priorities in life change - but that often comes with age.I wasn’t even a lawyer, and yet it took me 9 years to work out I never wanted to work within a law firm again and that working in the legal sector, although had got me many things in life (like it helped me buy my first flat), I lost a lot of my “prime” to being tired and stressed. Fortunately I loved my job enough to keep me ticking over, but the reality is for many lawyers they also work out the job isn’t what they want and they are working their backsides off to just get through a day. But the money and prestige makes them reluctant to walk away. However many do walk away to either in house roles or different careers because it isn’t what they want and the crazy pay never really compensates for that.</blockquote>

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