Even those of us who went to the right school and got the right job have our issues.Working 12-14 hrs day after day, weekends ..ect, arguing the most important Multinational Sub-Lateral Quantified Bi-Monthly Prospectus Agreement case
takes its toll. As a partner you get increased pressure and administrative tasks which make the hours longer still.

A good description of legal work is that its like mixing cement with your eyelashes. The people are you work with tend to be obsessive compulsive paranoid freaks. Law enforcement tends to be more rewarding, yet the compensation causes miost to go to the civil big firm side.