Helping Lawyers Decide which New Career to Pursue

Lawyer Career Consulting DC helps unhappy lawyers decide which alternative career to pursue that best suits their temperament and meets their practical needs.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC can help you choose a new career that takes into account many aspects of your past experience, including:

Your favorite subjects and activities in school;

• current avocational interests (if any);
• your favorite magazines and books,
• the professions of your best friends and partner;
• your preferred subjects of conversation;
• vacation, music, and stylisticpreferences;
• Websites you visit on the Internet;
• your interest inhelping people, or solving intellectual problems; and
• whether you avoid, or enjoy, interacting with strangers.

Build On Strengths: In selecting new career, you will draw on many strengths and resources:

• your intelligence;
• your capacity for three-dimensional and strategic thinking;
• your attention to detail; and
• self-discipline.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC will guide you through a process, individually adapted to you, that will:

• Forget the Vision Statements:
• Traditional career counseling models encourage you to identify an "ideal profession," and then work backward from the ideal toward practical reality.
• Such "vision statements" are of little use
• The "answer" to the quest for a meaningful career rarely emerges from models or statements of ideals.
• Rely on Your "Life Experience":
• The answer to "what’s next" most often arises from a rigorous examination of what "already happened" or "is happening now."
• The clues to choosing a good career lie close at hand in your own experience in life.
• Require "Hands-On" Experience, to assess and confirm how well you would be suited to a particular profession. For example:
• a prospective teacher could spend time observing another teacher and students in a classroom;
• a prospective doctor can spend time in a hospital;
• a future psychotherapist can volunteer in settings where people express deep feelings (for example, in a hospice or on a hotline).
• Insist that New Skills Come Naturally: You will need to develop new skills in an alternative profession, but the new skills should come fairly naturally to you. Your work should have a sense of "flow," and imvolve minimal intellectual "pushing and shoving."
• Consider Professions Already In Your Mind: A new career must have an anchor in your mind – even if only in your imagination. You will most likely end your career transition process with a decision to pursue a field of work that you already had in mind before the first consultation.
• Consider Practical Issues. A new career must:
• be feasible economically;
• involve training that you can realistically undertake;
• make use of certain skills you have already developed; and
• use aptitudes you have already displayed.

Finding a good career "fit" is one of the great challenges in life. Some individuals find their "right livelihood" easily. For many others, a sound career choice comes only after intensive effort and self-reflection, over a period of time, with expert consultation.