Why Leave?

Hiring Partner has an interesting post about layoffs, in which he lists a number of reasons people voluntarily leave firms.  Among his reasons are:

move to different city for spouse job/self job/need to be closer to relatives; move in-house; move to government or non-profit organization; litigator who wants more trial experience and gets prosecutor-type job; person who moves to a boutique; person who just moves laterally; mom who decides to stay home with children; dad who decides to stay home with children (see, HP very PC); person who leaves law entirely for new field.

I thought of a few he missed.

• follow the gold rush (a/k/a the great western exodus of 2000);
• mo money, mo money, mo money;
• move inhouse or to government;
• stay with a departing practice group or partner; and
• grass has got to be greener (hate the people in your group and figure XYZ can’t be worse).

What others can you think of?

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