William Shilling, What Makes a Happy Lawyer
TechnoLawyer publisher Neil Squillante asks:
"Why are so many lawyers unhappy? What qualities, personal and otherwise, tend to distinguish happy lawyers from unhappy lawyers?"
I think the happy lawyers are the ones that can do an excellent job of lawyering, and also do an excellent job of leaving work at the end of each day and having a great, non-lawyer life. Perspective and the ability to put one's own family before a client on a Saturday morning when your seven year old wants to go shoot off model rockets. It's all about choices; the happy lawyers choose to have a life outside their legal careers.
William R. Shilling
Attorney
Macon County Department of Social Services
Franklin, NC
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