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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm glad your dad recognized that you weren't going to be able to get into a good law school and get good enough grades. You are absolutely insane to think that the culture of law firms has not changed since the 80s and 90s. It is an entirely different world. I'm not saying your dad didn't work a lot, but the difference then was that you would work a lot and then make partner a few years later. Remember when he was working that hard to make partner? That is now the whole career as an associate, except you are now reachable 24 hours a day, you will never make partner, there is very little incentive to train you to make rain and get independance, and every partner is out to get every other partner because even partners lack job security so you may be used as an achilles heel.[/quote]

Lol, my dad didn't discourage me from going into law because I wouldn't get into a good law school and get good enough grades.  Rather, he realized the culture has gotten really terrible (basically what you describe) and the job security is lower than in the past, and that law as a field is not the guaranteed security it once was.  He also thought it was a rat race.  I work in a STEM field anyway and was not interested in going into law school.  I don't think that NOTHING has changed since the '80s and '90s, however when my dad was going up for partner in the early 2000s, he was reachable 24/7 by internet/blackberry, so I don't understand why you think I don't get that.  He also worked like mad when I was a baby.  I was just objecting to the notion that it was more like the '60s/70's than now.  I don't think so, from everything my mom tells me about the olden days when he was an associate--the job market and chances of making partner were better, but it wasn't work life balance '60s/70s style.  I was also commenting that you work like mad, but it is more FLEXIBLE than some jobs.  I recall going to Costa Rica and my dad was taking a conference call with a client from the beach.  That lifestyle sucks, but it can also be compatible with having a baby.  My mom worked in environmental science, and she needed to be in the field.  If I was sick and couldn't go to daycare, it was easier for my dad to work from home on a conference call with a client that it was for her to miss a scheduled environmental testing site.  From what it appears from his younger female colleagues with children who I have met, that aspect remains true.[/quote]

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