Considering the Occupy Wall Street protests, and our sclerotic political system, are you surprised?I just did a Venn diagram with one circle being “Try to make livable wage until statutory retirement  (4 years)” and  the other being “Strenuously avoid doing evil; Hopefully help to create better world, society”.I’ve also marched on Wall Street with union workers and in my own weekly demonstrations in my upstate NY town.  Working with some of my friends to organize a consumers food coop.I agree with you that you should love the work, but even the work has become increasingly difficult as the finance types have disdain for the environmental regulations and government because of their conservative ideology.  That puts me at odds with them, because i believe in the efficacy of the laws and they don’t…they don’t understand why you shouldn’t take the shortcut of lobbying and paying off legislators to weaken the laws rather than comply with them which has been the accepted practice since Nixon’s day.Maybe family law practitioners just have it better, as much as you complain.  (And I did plenty of complaining about clients that didn’t pay too…there seems to be a widespread thought that the invoice is just a suggested contribution, negotiable.  Not too different than the idea that rich folks are often lousy tippers, and we all know businesses are about cutting costs, including living on their suppliers while they hoard cash and thinking you want to work for them for free for the “relationship” and exposure.  Feh.