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[quote=Anonymous]I completely understand what pp is saying.  It was a bit different for me because I am a parties and I had significant client contact.  So I really loved a lot of it, and I stayed for 6 years.  They wanted me to stay longer, but I knew I didn't want this life forever.  I didn't sleep.  I would break down and cry hysterically at least once a month wanting the work to just slow down for a minute, but half hour later I was always working again.  I didn't see daylight.  I couldn't make any plans.  I had to tell those that I supervised that they had to cancel birthday plans.  I called people on their honeymoons and asked them work questions by the pool.  My period would stop for months because I was messing up my body by switching timezones so frequently and often working from 6am in DC to midnight in LA and then going out for a couple hours with a partner for a couple hours before starting meetings at 8, repeated in some way every day.  I would have skipped the going out but 1.  It was my job and 2. It was the only fun I could have, ever.  I loved it.  I hated it.  I knew I couldn't do it forever and I was watching partners did young from it on a regular basis.  I have a much more sustainable life as a government attorney now, but I only make $130k and I can't bounce from VIP club to VIP club anymore.  I'm not working today though, which is something I never could have said at the firm - sure there were a handful of days in which I didn't work during that time, but I never knew they would occur until after they had passed.[/quote]

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