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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're earned, to say the least.[/quote]

Not really.[/quote]

Not really? Lawyers at firms don't have to work hard? and a lot? Wonder what my dh is doing all the time at work and while he's up all hours of the night working in our home office.  Hmmmm.....I'd better take a closer look.[/quote]

I think the point is that attorneys are not the only ones working brutal hours, or working hard.  I don't blame folks for taking what the market offers, but I'd love to see a bit of self-awareness.

/wife of Biglaw associate[/quote]

Thanks for this.  I swear people with high-paying professional degrees have their heads up their butts about what kinds of hours other people work.  My parents are both MDs (and so is their social circle), and whenever I mentioned to anyone that I wasn't studying medicine the first response was, "Oh, you don't want to work as hard as your parents."  Yeah, whatever.  DH and I both have PhDs and work in the private sector.  I won't even talk about some of the hours I worked while I was doing research, and while I have a better schedule now DH's is very grueling and involves a lot of last minute international travel as well.  We earn good money because we are in the private sector, but I know a ton of people who work similar hours without anywhere near the same level of compensation.

Sure, Big Law lawyers work hard, but so do a lot of other people who don't have the financial renumeration to show for it.[/quote]I have a PhD in organic chemistry from a gruelingly competitive research lab.  (My advisor was gunning for the Nobel Prize.)  It didn6't even come close to being as rough as my time in Biglaw.  Research is largely done at your own pace.  If you make a mistake, it's yours to fix. The hours are long, but often monotonous. In BigLaw you have to account for and justify every 6 minutes. Errors are called out in a brutal fashion. You are constantly at the mercy of your email. The intensity just doesn't compare.  [/quote]

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