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Things I do not miss about being a partner in a New York City law firm:
- Being a partner.
- Being in New York City.
- Being in a law firm.
- Commuting at least three hours a day, five days a week, in every kind of
nasty weather.
- Paying thousands of after-tax dollars in annual commuting costs.
- Paying New York City income taxes.
- Paying New York City prices.
- New York City landlords.
- Riding in overheated, overcrowded, uncomfortable, messy, Metro-North
Commuter Railroad trains.
- Crowds.
- Traffic.
- Noise.
- Dirt.
- Garbage.
- Sirens.
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Being accosted on the street by panhandlers and mental patients.
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Wearing a suit and tie.
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Waiting for elevators.
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Lugging a heavy briefcase to and from an office every day.
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Working with dumbed-down software, so other network users can not
inadvertently do anything harmful.
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Working with dumbed-down software, because others do not need features I use.
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Working with broken, obsolete, or ineffective equipment, because the
lease on it hasn't expired yet.
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Having little or no control over my own work or schedule.
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Constant exhortations to bill, BILL,
BILL!
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Law firm meetings.
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Law firm paperwork.
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Law firm politics.
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Law firm egos (my own is quite enough, thank you).
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Not being able to solve problems as they arise, but having
to rely on "support personnel" to solve them (especially if the support
staff does not understand the problems, know how to fix them, or care
whether or when they are actually fixed.)
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And last, but definitely not least:
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