One of the people featured in my last life-after-law post left a comment telling me that she has a series of interviews on her blog of lawyers no longer practicing law. Jodi Ettenberg calls her series Thrillable Hours. From the first post of Jodi's series:
Introducing Thrillable Hours: Proving that Even Lawyers Can Have Fun
I am starting a Q&A series on Legal Nomads called Thrillable Hours. The series will highlight people who have taken their law degrees and followed an alternative career path. Yes, this is a play on the lawyerly ‘billable hours’. Yes, I find this funny.
When I was working in New York and in a social setting with new people, the first question thrown my way would almost always be ‘what do you do?’ Corporate law might not have been my passion, but I was proud of my work and happy to explain what I was up to in the city. However, when I started travelling and people would ask the same question some would visibly recoil when I mentioned that I was a lawyer. You see, we have this reputation and it’s not necessarily a great one. I could see the judgment, the question marks behind their eyes and then the inevitable statement that followed: “but you don’t seem like you’re a lawyer.” What does that even mean?
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