Originally Posted by
HappyToBeHere
My wife makes less as an attorney with 15 years of litigation experience than I will on first year pay. She is only done paying half her law school loans. She has been head hunted by larger firms that pay way more but she takes QOL over money any day. She has less billable hours and a boss that understands kids and the impact of a husband that was military and now an airline pilot and her own reserve duty. She will tell anyone she is on the lower end but even her friends at the big international firms don't make more than 200K unless they have no other life than the firm
Different experiences in life for different people I suppose. My lawyer friends are hard and efficient workers when they work, but enjoy their free time when we hang out on the weekends. One's on his own and is a criminal defense attorney, and the others are together at a firm that does pretty well.
I shared what I have observed as a rebuttal to the argument of "We do better than lawyers, doctors, and dentists." I think we do ourselves a disservice when we try to compare ourselves to other professions. I guess it's a good way to manage expectations. What is it with airline pilots: We're not paid enough, but we sure do have it better than those saps who went to law school or med school, right? Which is it? I don't need to compare myself to someone else to build my ego up. I'm fine with them making more (or less). But I do think I'm worth more for my skill set than what I'm currently paid based on the profits I'm helping produce.
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