If lawyers, new and experienced, started focusing on work-life balance as something just as important as money, think how the profession would change. Law firms might have to hire more attorneys, rather than getting one person to do 80 hour-weeks. Gee, maybe it would even speed the demise of the billable hour system, and good riddance there.
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The Other Key Lawyer Personality Trait: Think, Don’t Feel
The Thinking/Feeling preference in the Myers-Briggs typology is a biggie for happiness and satisfaction at work. If you’re a Feeling type and a lawyer, you’re probably miserable. That’s why knowing whether you’re a Feeler or a Thinker is important to assessing whether to stay in law.
Key Lawyer Personality Trait: Are You a Sensing or Intuitive Type?
The two middle traits of Myers-Briggs typology (Sensing/Intuitive and Perceiving/Feeling) are the keys to satisfaction at work, whether you’re a lawyer or a carpenter. When your preferences in those two areas are in synch with the type of work you’re doing, you will feel more fulfilled and in harmony. Sounds kind of important to me.
Yet More on the Lawyer Personality
The Myers-Briggs Extravert/Introvert and Judging/Perceiving preferences are all about how you prefer to interact with the world. They boil down to what kind of world you like to live in, and what structure you want it to have. Kind of fundamental questions for everyone, including unhappy lawyers.
More on the Lawyer Personality
Of the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types, 6 dominate in law. In fact, those 6 types make up close to 70% of the personality types found in law. Are you the right type for law, or are you better suited for something else?
Leaving Law 