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[quote=Anonymous]I almost became a lawyer, but chose another path at the last minute.

Recently I was talking to a friend who is a partner in Biglaw, and he described his life to me. Honestly, it sounded horrific. At least in a saltmine you don’t have to account for your time in 12 minute increments…Horrific hours, living in terror of not bringing in enough work and being de-equitized, never taking more than a week’s vacation at a time, and only one or two a year at that, and sometimes working during them.

I had not understood quite how bad it was even as a partner. And for what? Money? I don’t know anyone from my school or college that doesn’t have enough money. Some are richer and some are poorer, but everyone can feed, cloth themselves, educate their kids and go on vacation.

So what explains why anyone would live like this? I think it is risk aversion, as mentioned earlier, and a lack of imagination about how to step off the track.

After talking with him, my only question was why anyone would do this, not why anyone would refuse.

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