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*Spoiler/ambiguous personal essay alert*This was really funny and heartrending, especially if youre currently practicing BigLaw (Im not sure what the criteria is for that anymore ... I would go with just working at a law firm plus adding about 700 billables a year). The authors columns (and I am a fan of his column at AboveTheLaw ... me and a bunch of super vitriolic people probably procrastinating and lending complete credence to this work) are funny, although I wouldve like to have seen more new material in this book. The shifts between satire, patient interactions and personal anecdotes are effective. The observations of workload and work interactions are spot on, even if you werent at S&C racking up 2600 a year. To some degree, I think any practicing lawyer would quickly recognize them. And I really enjoyed the crown piece of where he shows up for his law firms reunion and his partners reaction to all the richesse. I visited a friend who was clerking at Allen & Overy in London the year before I decided to apply to law school. Despite her using part of my visit as an attempt to maturely make me realize - in fact, almost precisely as the author does - that I needed real reasons to go to law school, Id be a complete liar if my gut reaction to being inside her firm for two hours didnt have something to do with my ultimate career path.(Shes since paid off her loans, gotten out and is pursuing a PhD in middle eastern archeology. Shes basically a Meyerhofer success story, and I enviously note seemed to need none of the therapy. Anomoly?) I think my one complaint - nay, suggestion - to the author, would be a followup with more on surviving, perhaps even (shock) succeeding in a law firm, because some of us have decided to own that decision, or are at jobs that maybe dont produce the consuming anxiety provoked by S&C types whose billable requirements are far and away above ours, but also still have hard axes to grind until we decide (or they do) if this is forever. Because of loans, because of acquired expensive tastes, because we find ourselves actually enjoying our work at times, are okay at it, and sometimes are not sure if any other career would be better. For example, on really bad days when Ive thought about throwing it in, I tend to resort to flashing back to airport security lines and TSA peeps, thinking trying to herd cats at that salary and with that level of ingratitude is worse. Or even worse ... when I was a waitress - at Cracker Barrel. Having a partner call you on a vacation aint nothing like standing between an incredibly obese woman and her red eye gravy knowing full well she is not going to give you a tip. I wouldnt trade my life now (even on crap days) for that. So, maybe Ive drunk the koolaid, maybe thats a coping mechanism, or maybe thats a healthy way of making the most of where I am and taking responsibilities for the choices Ive made. But, perhaps a book on finding quirky or unorthodox ways to deal with that would be successful instead of just a tome of doom (however funny and well-written) on how there is no way to have a work-life balance with big law or the other disturbing spectrum of generic feel-good partner-authored amazon selection. Perhaps the first step is ... acceptance. And the second, flight (this book covers more than its share on that one) or fight. I would like to just see more on fight. Theres a teaser of it - its acknowledged as possible. Ive seen people do it in the same career context, and some of them actually turn out okay.Which would lead me to my second suggestion for a followup as to law specific issues - how to deal with the people bossing you around that did not turn out okay. Theres a lot of talk in here about emotional buffering, but it would be nice to see some practical steps on just how to do that. (*See my further reading suggestion below) He touches nicely on the pleasing aspect of lawyering and the desire for a reward that never comes ... but doesnt seem to have hit as strongly on how to achieve that for yourself. Because there will hit a point where that is what youll need to do to survive, even if you cant manage it 100% of the time. Oh ... baby steps. Anyone reviewing my reading list can see Im totally a diletante wannabe therapist, so, until my suggested book gets authored: if youre one of those people working at a law firm who wants to run screaming from scary tyrannical and unreasonable partners or finds yourself in a panic attack because youre overwhelmed doing a lot of things that youve thought were not your job or completely arbitrary and meanspirited, it would probably be useful to figure out how to stop feeling that way (justified or not) and to cut the cord in the hours when you leave work to a life of your own - even if its just an hour or two on long days. I know its possible, general CBT teaches it. But I think Meyerhofer might be the person to write about how to do it in a law firm - admittedly a unique context - once hes busy scaring all the future lawyers away.Im going on 5 years in law now. I still have days where I want to move to Wyoming and start a goat farm while authoring great works, but thats been an escapist fantasy that has tracked all of my careers and I dont seem to be doing anything to further that goal, so ... It does get easier, because you have to get mentally tougher and stop worrying so darn much. Or maybe you just get meaner or less sensitive. Its also very possible Im undergoing the metamorphosis so endemic to advancement - but I want to stay aware of that and not let it happen. I want to still treat people who work for me with kindness and respect, and his message about not letting life at a law firm change you (it will, somewhat regardless) is something to be taken to heart even if you do decide you want to be partner. At the same time, and completely without any irony, my recent reading of The Wisdom of Psychopaths, on employing the positive traits of psychopathy to succeed, gave me a completely new approach to my career that surprisingly made it less stressful. I think its about adapting in some ways. So, take that for what its worth. Hopefully, a giggle.Anyway, enough of the personal essay bit before some bar association person digs this out and makes me give a talk on mental health or succeeding at a law firm or something, I enjoyed this. Perhaps it could have a sequel? Perhaps some of his patients could find a reoslution that didnt involve them detouring off the yellow brick road? I think it could happen ... to a few of us.
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