yeah that

was that was a big part of it it's like uh i didn't really know what else i wanted to do so it was didn't really want to go back to school so the options were like do i want to stay at my firm become a partner no Do you want to stay at my firm and take a lesser role where I'd be doing the exact same thing, but I'd be working a little bit less and I'd get beginning paid like half or third of what I was getting for, or go to a smaller firm and, uh, Not really sure what that would have been.

Or go in-house to a company and work as an attorney in a company.

But those jobs are very, very rare because most companies will have one or two patent attorneys in-house.

And then they'll just send out all of their more complicated, time-consuming work to big law firms.

And so that job probably wasn't going to happen either.

So it was just okay.

I still find it hard to ask for help.