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- Liz East quit her job as a criminal defense lawyer due to high stress and long working hours.
- She started a new business providing dog-walking and boarding services.
- East now reports higher monthly earnings while working significantly fewer hours.
- The career change highlights a shift in priorities from a high-pressure corporate environment to one focused on personal well-being.
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Liz East
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“Working in criminal defence was a lot; it was quite draining”
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…told to want. Criminal defence law — courtrooms, clients, the weight of other people's futures resting on how well she did her job. From the outside, it looked like she'd made it. From the inside, it felt different. " Working in criminal defence was a lot; it was quite draining ," she told People magazine, as reported by the outlet, citing Kennedy News and Media. "I did everything from admin to going to court, going to prisons, and chatting with clients." Four years in, the exhaustion had…
“There's also this 'London life' where you're all expected to go out and have a drink, and sometimes you're not getting home until 9 pm or 10 pm”
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…life now?'” She talks about something a lot of people who've worked in high-pressure city jobs will recognise: the expectation to keep showing up, keep socialising, keep performing exhaustion as if it were commitment. " There's also this 'London life' where you're all expected to go out and have a drink, and sometimes you're not getting home until 9 pm or 10 pm ," she said. “I don't think that's sustainable for having a family.” She's blunt about what kept people, including her, staying in jobs like that far longer than made sense. "It's not a life," she said. "There's so much…
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