[HitmanLV]

re: the women working at my law firms.

It's not an younger set issue. The women I know who have that hangup ranged in ages from early 20s to late 50s. Also don't forget that a lot of very educated men simply reject women with very time-intensive careers (just as many women reject men who work 3000+ hours a year).

I took extreme steps to get out of that work schedule and start my own business. After a couple of years of sacrifice, I now work out of home and these days work only about 4 hours a day. I do planned travel for my work a few weekends out of the year where I do my seminars.

The tought of dating a big firm law associate who needs to work 6 or 7 days a week, 3000 hour a year, and have vacations and planned events suddenly canceled on some partner's whim (because she doesn't have the stones to stand up to them) is unappealing to me.

Draw whatever conclusions you like, but plenty of very successful men have no interest in a relationship with a woman who works too much. We get a lot of the downside of that dynamic (hear all the crap she is too cowardly to tell her bosses and coworkers) while enjoying less of the upside.

Since we have the choice (and we do), we choose to reject that. It's a very sensible and defendable approach.

[chris1]

Agreed 100%. I am an attorney and started my own practice and would never look back. I had a few WASP SOB bosses I wanted to strangle and then flew the coop. I love my life now and do whatever I want, pretty much when I want.

My GF is a divorce and probate attorney. I sometimes wish she would quit and do something else as it is a terrible way to earn a living.