Really feeling the pointlessness of this job today and thinking wistfully about what I wanted to do with my life before I got sucked into a prestige rabbit hole. Anyone look at what it takes to respec and go to med school in your 30s? Complete pipe dream I’m sure but saving lives seems so much better than anything I can do with a law degree.

It’s already demotivating to work with verbally abusive partners, but I feel like it’s almost worse when the “nice” partners don’t call out the behavior. Partner 1 demanded a draft within a v short timeline. Partner 2 shared his thoughts that it was an unnecessary fire drill with me. I sent the draft within the timeline (admittedly not my best work). Partner 2 made a few revisions and sent it to client. Partner 1 then emailed me and Partner 2 saying that the draft looks AI-generated (it wasn’t),

What are the characteristics of some of the best partners you have worked with?

Anyone else noticed that female associates tend to be treated less harshly by partners? It's like this Gordon Ramsey meme where if I make a mistake, the partner calls me a 'fucking donkey,' and if a female associates makes the same mistake, it's "oh dear, oh dear. gorgeous".

It's Wednesday morning 1am. You're the hotshot M&A associate leading the deal. You receive a heavy markup of the SPA; client wants your revised draft by start of business hours so they can flip the draft to the other side by Wednesday end of day and push for signing Friday. What do you do?