Advice for leaving the profession
In the August issue of Your ABA, (“e-news for members”), there is a report on a seminar given at the ABA’s annual meeting in New York last month. The title? “Create a New Career Out of Your Old Resume.” It was presented by lawyers who have transitioned into other careers.
Do the members of any other profession spend so much time and effort seeking ways to leave the profession?
Don’t get me wrong. I have no objections to anyone who doesn’t want to be a lawyer becoming something else. In fact, I positively cheer when a lawyer is able to quit the day job to write full time. (I also gnash my teeth in envy, but that’s another story...).
But what seems odd to me is how lawyers seem to institutionalize exits from the profession. For example, a quick google search for "leaving the law" yielded
a website devote to helping people leave the practice: http://www.leavingthelaw.com/;
a blog written by a "recovering lawyer" http://leavinglaw.wordpress.com/;
a Leaving the Law meetup group category (showing three formed groups, plus another 235 others interested) http://leavingthelaw.meetup.com/;
and too many articles on the topic to include here.
Do AMA gatherings include advice for walking away from a medical practice?
