Way Worse Than Being a Dentist: the Lawyer's Quest for Meaning by Will Meyerhofer

Author:Will Meyerhofer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Way back when, I took an advanced tax course in law school – just to see if I could roll with the gangstas. I even took it the wrong semester, so instead of JD candidates, it was LLM’s snickering at my desperation. I received my lowest grade ever. I also discovered tax law is like higher mathematics: there is no big picture. Tax at the advanced level is not intuitive or guided by simple, over-arching principles; it’s a mess of staggering, intimidating complication. You have to let go and trust in minds greater than your own.

What I’ve come to realize lately, as a therapist working with tax lawyers, is that these seemingly unapproachable superstars are human. And being “the expert” can exact a toll.

One guy – a senior tax lawyer from a big city firm – walked into my office last week. He had the usual frustrations. In an ordinary economy he’d be making partner soon, but business was terrible, so even the partners at his firm were being laid off. He was expecting a pink slip.

There was a deeper issue, too: He didn’t like being a tax lawyer.

I gave him a speech about my admiration for his kind.

He appreciated the fawning worship, but his expression remained grim.

“What you describe is actually what I hate about it.”

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