Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Ramit Sethi, "Immense stability, but hate your job?", Aug 3, 2024). Two speakers discuss the experience of being a corporate lawyer: one speaker notes the career's stability but personal dislike for the role; the other explains reasons—long hours (billing ~15 hours/day), heavy brief-reading, and perceived low excitement—while acknowledging many lawyers pursue creative side projects.
Paul used to be a corporate lawyer, so we used to be in this place of, like, immense stability. And he really didn't like being a lawyer for obvious reasons.
Wait, just tell everyone what those obvious reasons are. Let's go ahead and tell everyone about the legal field. Oh, it's about as exciting as accounting, and you have to work 100 hours a week. I like lawyers. Every time I talk to a corporate attorney, they're like Lego masters or they do something really cool on the side. But of course, that's all I see. I don't realize they're billing 15 hours a day and doing reading briefs all day, so.
