Anxiety regarding job performance. First attorney gig.
Hey team,
So, I started my first attorney gig since passing the bar at a small practice. A principal and another associate who has worked at the firm for two months longer than me. I just finished my first month. I’m getting comfortable with my daily court calls and orders. This issue is, I’m not getting much feedback at all. I do everything that is assigned to me on the practice panther software and still sometimes just sit around for hours at a time. My boss was gone for several weeks at his other office. Now he’s back at the office I work at and I feel weird just sitting there and reading files for stuff that will come up in the future. He’s a very busy guy and doesn’t really want to be disturbed a lot. It seems like the other associate gets more work assigned and I’d just like more stuff to do. Also, when he’s here I feel like leaving at 5 is early because he stays late, but I’m always in the office at 8. The anxiety is just destroying me.