DDX_2002's Journal: Still alive, just not active

Since last I updated, I have left my job at The Firm, have contemplated (but not yet decided to) stop doing this lawyer thing altogether, and moved to the oilpatch (God help me.). I'm looking for law jobs, but I'm having trouble being enthusiastic about another soul-killing 12-20x7x365 job where you're either responsible for multimillion or multibillion dollar suits (I've worked on both high hundred millions and low $X Bn litigation), or what is usually just as stressful, litigation involving much lower numbers or simpler problems but that has one hell of a lot more direct impact on the man or woman sitting across from you when you interview them. In my experience, even when they're in the wrong, they're usually a fairly nice person who had a bad day once. Most of the right @#$&hole parties I've met were across from me, not on my side of the table, thankfully. Anyhow, that's why I've been dark. That and, as mentioned in a previous rant here, I can't talk about my job except in vague generalities. And why is 'comments disabled' the default preference here?