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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really like what I do -- appellate practice -- because it is a great fit for my personality and skill set.  And I'm lucky to work at a great place and get paid pretty well. But, I'm an immigration lawyer and have almost no opinion on immigration politics and policy.  So I would say that I'm not passionate about what I do because I am not one of the true believers, one way or the other (and there are a lot of true believers in immigration law, so it's pretty easy to spot the rest of us).[/quote]

I am very similar except I do employment law. Also an appellate practice, which is a great fit for me -- I love to write, I am interested in the issues but I don't want to deal with the people, I like that someone else does the sleuthing on the ground and I can come in afterwards and craft the brief. I enjoy my work very much but I am not passionate about it. Maybe that's not a bad thing. I don't really want to live to work; I have plenty of interests outside of work and I tend to be obsessive about the things that really interest me. Before kids I could easily stay at the office until 10 pm every night but it wasn't a wrench to cut back.  If I lose a case, or if I encounter some really sad facts, it upsets me a bit but not a huge amount. If it were something I was really invested in, like reproductive rights, I would be terribly upset any time I had a setback. So, anyway, I'm pretty happy where I ended up. I don't love it as much as my first legal job -- a district court clerkship -- but it's paradise compared to my second, which was 3 years in biglaw.[/quote]

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