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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds like you are a female big law associate (or men wear lululemon shorts?).  If so, you are comparing yourself to the wrong metric.  A lot of the male partners have a life like you describe because they have kids and all the things that come along with kids when you have money, like private school and big houses.  But, there is a much bigger range within the ranks of female partners.  Some have kids and all those trappings, but there are many who are single or don’t have kids and their lives look a bit different. Nothing that you describe would prevent you from being a partner, and not having kids will be something of an advantage early on because you can more easily put in the hours.

I have some partners I am close to and I know a lot about their private lives but plenty that I only know professionally and I don’t really know that much about them.  As long as they do good work and don’t create headaches for me, I don’t really care how they spend their free time.  [/quote]

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