In the spirit of my post-law school life, here is a melodramatic quote from a (very good!) book I just finished called Q: A Novel by Evan Mandery:
"'[P]rofessors decline to mention the most complicating detail about what happens after you graduate from law school: you have to be a lawyer.
'At that point, you can forget about public policy and doing justice. The moment you receive your diploma you become a lackey, whose job is to sift through boxes of documents and research obscure points of law, and take calls at three in the morning on a Sunday from some client in China who can’t remember the time difference. And when he calls, you can’t say, ‘Who do you think you are, it’s three o’clock in the fucking morning!’ You say, ‘Yes sir, what do you need me to do and by when do you need it?"
'The job is like a noose. Only you can't kick the chair out from under you and end it in an instant. It gets progressively tighter, but incrementally and so slowly that you hardly notice the change, until one day you realize that you cannot breathe anymore and you ask yourself, how did this happen? You are choking on your life, and there's no way out.'"
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