u/Unconquered-

Had what I now know was a bulging disc for over a year with very minor sciatic stiffness, caused by lifting something wrong at the loading dock.

One day, a year later, I went to sleep totally fine and woke up screaming. Fully herniated disc. No idea how that even happened.

6 weeks of the worst pain of my life, and now my back has randomly become 95% better on its own.

Except now I have extreme sciatica down the back of my right leg, foot goes numb standing still, and can only walk a few minutes before I can barely lift my foot. I live in New York City so this is particularly a problem.

Will this go away by itself like the back pain did or am I screwed for life? I’m 28 this sucks man.

I'm in senior-level management in a corporate health system in my 20's currently well on the way to a vice president role by 35ish. Which would pay about 250k-350k for the rest of my life, and possibly 500k+ in the C-Suite one day.

I hate management for the sole reason that I control nothing and do nothing. The entire job is meetings and telling other people to do things, which they nearly always screw up, subsequently reflecting badly on me not them. It's also hard to ever feel successful when surrounded by an endless sea of surgeons pulling in literal millions that I have no chance to ever be.

I worked at a law firm previously and currently live in NYC, so the idea of switching to biglaw and making that 500k C-suite salary by 35 instead while actually doing my own work and having some kind of an actual skill, plus the opportunity to make those surgeon millions as a partner is very appealing. The hours worked aren't any different than a vice president anyway other than having work at night.

What would you choose in hindsight?

I have a PMP and still don’t quite understand what exactly the value-add of a project manager is supposed to be.

I’m an operations manager and every time I have meetings with project managers I swear all they do is ask me what I’m doing for the project and then email a summary of what I’m doing to my boss…who already knows.

If something needs to get done, they don’t do it, they just tell me to do it. Which again my boss could just do themselves.

So…what exactly are they adding to justify a 100k salary? Genuine question.

Does anyone know what the utilities cost for a studio in one of the big buildings? 75 Tresser or Vela on the park in particular.

I’ve tried searching and people are saying everything from $100 to $500 so it’s hard to know.