My sister makes 48k in her clerkship, so not all lawyers make great money. She looks at it as a step towards her future so she’s making the sacrifice now.
I used to do consulting and a lot of my clients were small firms. I was talking to one lady as I was working on her computer. She seemed nice, but tired. I asked about her kids, and she said, “in my profession you are either a good lawyer or a good mom, I’m a good lawyer” needless to say I didn’t ask about her kids again. You can tell she had guilt. She had a million+1 pictures of her kids on the walls. Probably the only way she can see them.
