<p>People work sick all the time, and they come to work looking like crap sometimes too. No one would care about sores on your face unless you’re face to face with a client. If you’re coughing or puking around other people, that would be a different story.</p>
<p>And if you are coughing or puking, you can still be working at home. With new telephone technology and other connectedness, if the client isn’t actually at the lawyer’s office, all work can be done in such a way that everyone involved thinks the lawyer is in his or her office. I have worked with lawyers who were physically located in other states for periods of time and their phones were routed there, so if you called the office number in New York, the person answering just might be in Vermont, and you would never know. I can’t imagine anyone calling in sick for a cold sore.</p>
<p>Hi,
Sorry for abruptly jumping into the conversation. I’ve been thinking about law school after nearly 3.5 years of being in the work force. I saw that the general consensus here is that Big Law demands most of your life. But then which career does not? I’ve been a developer and now a PM in a fortune 100 technology firm and I find myself working almost round the clock to meet the deadlines. On July 4th long weekend, I ended up working till 4AM and then logged in again during Sat and Sun… I’ve not had a chance to take a vacation in the past 2 years… But the job pays nothing compared to BL. The question that we should be rather asking and answering would be job satisfaction. Work-life balance is an equation with more than two variables - if you enjoy what you are doing, find it economically rewarding and your life situations permit you to enjoy without any shackles, it should be fine… While answers to these variables cannot be provided by anyone on the forum, I think those who are answering can answer one important thing - does the number of hours demanded decrease with an increase in responsibility? Or in other words, as you go above the ladder, can you be master of your time?</p>
<p>Sorry if I am judging without knowing 
but maybe answering this question would be more conservative than many other answers here?</p>
<p>Hmmm…the question that we should (rather) be asking is…Why did you resurrect a thread that’s been dormant for a year?</p>
<p>ahhh Didn’t see the date Thanks for pointing it out!</p>