--- title: "Working Solo: Why and Why Not" description: I’ve worked in a 25 lawyer firm and a 4 lawyer firm. Seeing the big and the small, I have a sense of the pros and cons of each. Why am I on my own? --- [Dan's Desk](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/author/dan-gallatin) - [lawyer](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/lawyer) - [hugo](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/hugo) - [MN](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/mn) - [law](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/law) - [attorney](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/attorney) - [legal](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/legal) [Subscribe](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/working-solo-why-and-why-not#) 10/03/2018 # Working Solo: Why and Why Not - - - - - [mailto:?subject=Working%20Solo%3A%20Why%20and%20Why%20Not&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gallatin-law.com%2Fblog%2Fworking-solo-why-and-why-not](mailto:?subject=Working%20Solo%3A%20Why%20and%20Why%20Not&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gallatin-law.com%2Fblog%2Fworking-solo-why-and-why-not) I’ve worked in a 25 lawyer firm and a 4 lawyer firm. Seeing the big and the small, I have a sense of the pros and cons of each. Why am I on my own? Here are the pros and cons from my viewpoint: **Pros** - Financial independence: I worry about just my bills, my own invoices and not whether the staff is getting paid enough to support their families - Lawyers are jerks: It frankly is really hard to find lawyers who I like, let alone ones I would be in business within the Hugo and White Bear Lake area - Control: I control my day (sort of). I can be in at 6:00 am and gone at 2 without a business partner giving me dirty looks. I can take a day off and not give anybody advance notice. You get the idea. **Cons** - The office lottery pool doesn’t help me much. - There’s never a day when someone surprises me with donuts in the kitchen. - Either I water the plants or they die. So far I haven’t killed a plant. - I’m not great at technology, so some of that type of stuff takes me a while to cure. All in all the Pros well outweigh the cons. I’m on my own for the foreseeable future and that’s just fine by me. 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