Interesting stuff when resolutions are on the table. This article talks about asking yourself what you actually want to do with your life.

This got me thinking about the extent to which certain people I know are really engaged with the legal profession. How many of us are kind of living the life and doing the work, with the feeling that “I’m not really one of these guys”? One sometimes looks at the partners, the guys who have made it in this game, and thinks, “that’s not really me, I don’t really want to end up like that, doing that”. The danger is, if you stick around too long, despite intentions to the contrary, that’s probably how you’re going to end up. If that’s the case, maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea to think a little harder about what else might be out there.

Then again, another take on it might be that everyone thinks from time to time that they are different from their peers in the office and don’t really dig their job, and the idea that you can find work with which you are 100% engaged most of the time is just a load of American “Be All You Can Be” bullshit. [via evhead]