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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m jealous of their money. Not jealous of their spouses. Most of my law school classmates who stayed in big law are honestly the most obnoxious and insufferable people I know. [/quote]

+1 I think it takes a huge ego to make it in big law. Would be tough to be married to that.[/quote]

+1 and they think they work harder and are more important than anyone in the whole wide world. I have never met people who complain about work more than big law attorneys. You would think they were working in a coal mine. Could not be married to that, especially if I were single-handedly shouldering 95% of the parenting, which is basically a given. I will take my and my DH's middling but adequate non-profit pay any day. [/quote]

OK but your post is off.  Yes they think they work harder because they do.  Your coal mine example is nonsense.  Yes I would rather be a Biglaw Partner than a coal miner.  Of course.  But the Biglaw Partner is working way more hours at a much higher stress level for bigger stakes.   [b]And they are more important that most people. [/b] And today in 2024 who gives 95% of the parenting to the stay at home wife?  Almost no one including Biglaw partners.  Is it more than 50% on the wife?  Sure.  But most Biglaw partners are pretty heavily involved in children's lives.  This is not 1970 or 1980.  [/quote]

The guy who handles my plumbing, police officers, teachers, and the nurse practitioner I see for checkups are WAY more important than any biglaw partner (many of whom are actually making the world WORSE.)[/quote]

Oh and also, based on my time in biglaw as an associate, approximately 0% of partners were “pretty heavily involved in children’s lives.” Though some of them did at least know what grades their kids were in.[/quote]

I don’t think you know as much about these partners’ lives as you think you do.[/quote]

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