It is a caste-system, but one has to accept one’s caste assignment. It isn’t forced upon you. As a licensed attorney, one is free to practice law or not. One is free to sign up for the doc review hustle, or not. You can always sell life insurance or real estate. Or, God forbid, you can actually go solo, get your own clients — and attract an employer –if that’s one’s real goal or dream.

We determine our time table for retirement or not; we determine our professional, emotional, social and financial ‘wealth’ in this lifetime.

There is a powerful and thought-provoking article in the May 25th edition of Time Magazine which should be read called Women Will Rule Business. Not only should women read it and reflect upon it when thinking about their own career choices but also think about it in terms of how businesses will operate in general.

I’ve gotten to seriously thinking about this. Will bartering for legal services come back or simply become more prevalent given economic times are going to get more and more challenging?

Today, I learned that after 22 1/2 years at AT & T my brother was being laid off from his management position. He was two and a half years away from his pension.  He was given one year’s salary as severance because of his longevity.  He has five kids, two in college.  Fortunately, his home […]