Angst Of Billable Hours

As I was writing Overcoming The 6-Minute Life, I met a lawyer who had previously worked for a large law firm, but was no longer practicing law.  She told me that the billable hour system had driven her from the practice of law.

Although she had genuinely enjoyed the substantive nature of her legal work at her law firm, she had no regrets about escaping the world of billable hours.  In fact, she went so far as to state that she would go back to the practice of law if it were not for the necessity of billing hours . . . .