Career Clinic: Insurance litigation bores me to tears!
I qualified three years ago into my firm's insurance litigation department. This was a massive mistake but have not been able to extract myself from it. The work is dull and most of the time I have to force myself to look at files as the subject matter bores me to tears.
September 03, 2007 at 08:34 AM
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I qualified three years ago into my firm's insurance litigation department. This was a massive mistake but have not been able to extract myself from it. The work is dull and most of the time I have to force myself to look at files as the subject matter bores me to tears.
I have been trying for over two years (on and off) to secure a new role in a more general commerical dispute resolution department with a London firm and, although I get to the final stages of the interview process, always fall at the final hurdle. So far I have had five knockbacks, two cited "not technically strong enough", one "not right experience" and two said it didn't seem like I wanted the job enough. I am a clever, hard-working person and can only put my lack of techincal knowledge down to the fact that I am not interested in the subject matter.
Is it possible for me to get a job in capital markets, securitisation or banking or some other bouyant area at my stage of my career coming from a litigation background? I know that I am wasting my life where I am but don't want to ditch my legal career and feel I have a lot more to offer.
I feel trapped where I am and with no hope of getting out given my repeated knockbacks. People say you have so many options if you qualify as a lawyer but this has not been my experience.
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