Comments on: An Attitude Revamp (or, How to Get Your Groove Back) http://corporette.com/2010/07/29/an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back A fashion and lifestyle blog for women lawyers, bankers, MBAs, consultants, and otherwise overachieving chicks Fri, 25 May 2012 02:09:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Battling Burnout http://corporette.com/2010/07/29/an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back/comment-page-2/#comment-820195 Battling Burnout Sun, 20 May 2012 19:08:20 +0000 http://corporette.com/?p=9971#comment-820195 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Battling Burnout : Information Technology Burnout Project http://corporette.com/2010/07/29/an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back/comment-page-2/#comment-682300 Battling Burnout : Information Technology Burnout Project Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:53:45 +0000 http://corporette.com/?p=9971#comment-682300 [...] done to correct the issue, if anything? We’ve talked about this a bit before in my post about how I got my own groove back after feeling out of sync with my career and life, but let’s discuss more today. (Pictured: Burn Out, originally uploaded to Flickr [...] [...] done to correct the issue, if anything? We’ve talked about this a bit before in my post about how I got my own groove back after feeling out of sync with my career and life, but let’s discuss more today. (Pictured: Burn Out, originally uploaded to Flickr [...]

]]> By: In-House Europe http://corporette.com/2010/07/29/an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back/comment-page-1/#comment-633049 In-House Europe Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:06:40 +0000 http://corporette.com/?p=9971#comment-633049 Was that MD by any chance a German woman named M- P- ? if so, I agree she is amazing!! :) Was that MD by any chance a German woman named M- P- ? if so, I agree she is amazing!! :)

]]> By: jb http://corporette.com/2010/07/29/an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back/comment-page-2/#comment-160640 jb Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:32:55 +0000 http://corporette.com/?p=9971#comment-160640 I can't tell you how happy and relieved I was to find this blog and discussion thread. I've been struggling for some time to get through slumps in my professional life, and a huge part of my problem has been a sense that I'm all alone in this. I know that this isn't the case, but its an instinctive thought that I haven't been able to stop having. I really appreciate how honest and supportive everyone here is-it is a real contrast to what I find on similar websites [C2 -"filled with malicious loonies" made me laugh]-and your comments have made me a little more hopeful than I was at the start of the day. Thanks! I can’t tell you how happy and relieved I was to find this blog and discussion thread. I’ve been struggling for some time to get through slumps in my professional life, and a huge part of my problem has been a sense that I’m all alone in this. I know that this isn’t the case, but its an instinctive thought that I haven’t been able to stop having. I really appreciate how honest and supportive everyone here is-it is a real contrast to what I find on similar websites [C2 -"filled with malicious loonies" made me laugh]-and your comments have made me a little more hopeful than I was at the start of the day. Thanks!

]]> By: AN http://corporette.com/2010/07/29/an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back/comment-page-2/#comment-159928 AN Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:40:39 +0000 http://corporette.com/?p=9971#comment-159928 Oh no...I am so sorry. But frankly, you are being a bit TOO nice to him. You're doing everything though he had the breakdown several years ago? You just need to assess what things you can or can't live with (infidelity and abuse of any kind top my list) and then take it from there. Thankfully your kids are atleast of an age where they don't need care/baby sitting! Oh no…I am so sorry. But frankly, you are being a bit TOO nice to him. You’re doing everything though he had the breakdown several years ago? You just need to assess what things you can or can’t live with (infidelity and abuse of any kind top my list) and then take it from there. Thankfully your kids are atleast of an age where they don’t need care/baby sitting!

]]> By: Tax Lawyer http://corporette.com/2010/07/29/an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back/comment-page-1/#comment-159307 Tax Lawyer Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:24:03 +0000 http://corporette.com/?p=9971#comment-159307 Suze, I have an idea for you, and I have been trying to spread it nationwide with respect to child-rearing. It came to me out of the blue after spending a weekend with my brother and his children. Children generally need a forced time to go to sleep. If you make this time early (say 8:30-9:00pm) and enforce it, the kids will desperately want to stay up later. So tell them that they can stay up as late as they want, so long as they are reading at bedtime. They will start reading like mad--kids just don't want to go to sleep when we want them to. Not only will they become much smarter and more literate, generally after an hour or so of extra reading, they fall asleep anyway. A great way to make our next generation less video-game-addicts and more intelligent than the alternative. Suze, I have an idea for you, and I have been trying to spread it nationwide with respect to child-rearing. It came to me out of the blue after spending a weekend with my brother and his children.

Children generally need a forced time to go to sleep. If you make this time early (say 8:30-9:00pm) and enforce it, the kids will desperately want to stay up later.

So tell them that they can stay up as late as they want, so long as they are reading at bedtime. They will start reading like mad–kids just don’t want to go to sleep when we want them to.

Not only will they become much smarter and more literate, generally after an hour or so of extra reading, they fall asleep anyway.

A great way to make our next generation less video-game-addicts and more intelligent than the alternative.

]]> By: Tax Lawyer http://corporette.com/2010/07/29/an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back/comment-page-1/#comment-159303 Tax Lawyer Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:17:31 +0000 http://corporette.com/?p=9971#comment-159303 Wow, I am the last person to give anyone advice on relationships, given my history. But I can tell you that I had a co-worker and very good friend who went through a bitter divorce while working in the same office of a big firm at the time. It worked out well for them, but only because he had some clout with management, and managed to get her transferred to a different office location. Wow, I am the last person to give anyone advice on relationships, given my history. But I can tell you that I had a co-worker and very good friend who went through a bitter divorce while working in the same office of a big firm at the time.

It worked out well for them, but only because he had some clout with management, and managed to get her transferred to a different office location.

]]> By: Tax Lawyer http://corporette.com/2010/07/29/an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back/comment-page-1/#comment-159299 Tax Lawyer Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:08:41 +0000 http://corporette.com/?p=9971#comment-159299 Shayna, did they care at the tax accounting position whether your CPA license was active or inactive. My problem with switching from a law firm to an accounting firm to do tax work is that all the accounting firms seem to want an active license. With 40 hours per year of required CPE, and 17 years at law firms that would not give me the time off to keep my CPA license active, it lapsed long ago. I was not about to use my meager vacation time at biglaw to attend accounting CPE classes. So now I am trying to re-activate my CPA license, and it is proving very difficult. How did you manage this? Shayna, did they care at the tax accounting position whether your CPA license was active or inactive. My problem with switching from a law firm to an accounting firm to do tax work is that all the accounting firms seem to want an active license.

With 40 hours per year of required CPE, and 17 years at law firms that would not give me the time off to keep my CPA license active, it lapsed long ago. I was not about to use my meager vacation time at biglaw to attend accounting CPE classes. So now I am trying to re-activate my CPA license, and it is proving very difficult. How did you manage this?

]]> By: Anonymous http://corporette.com/2010/07/29/an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back/comment-page-2/#comment-159050 Anonymous Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:57:04 +0000 http://corporette.com/?p=9971#comment-159050 I recommend having major surgery. There's nothing like it to turn your world upside down. I recommend having major surgery. There’s nothing like it to turn your world upside down.

]]> By: Texan_in_NY http://corporette.com/2010/07/29/an-attitude-revamp-or-how-to-get-your-groove-back/comment-page-2/#comment-158996 Texan_in_NY Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:37:36 +0000 http://corporette.com/?p=9971#comment-158996 Wow - this post really hits home.  I recently up and left a BigLaw job in Texas and moved to NYC.  I was so done with it all that I left without a fully fleshed out plan. For now I am doing part time legal work with a law school friend and focusing on pursuing my longtime pipe dream of becoming a writer (actually taking classes from Gotham as well).  The feeling of freedom from the soul suck of BigLaw is exhilarating, but I must admit that I feel a little lost now having so much free time on my hands. An extreme measure - yes - but I haven’t regretted it for one second.   Wow – this post really hits home.  I recently up and left a BigLaw job in Texas and moved to NYC.  I was so done with it all that I left without a fully fleshed out plan. For now I am doing part time legal work with a law school friend and focusing on pursuing my longtime pipe dream of becoming a writer (actually taking classes from Gotham as well).  The feeling of freedom from the soul suck of BigLaw is exhilarating, but I must admit that I feel a little lost now having so much free time on my hands. An extreme measure – yes – but I haven’t regretted it for one second.  

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