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Office of
General Counsel

• Government pay scale
• cafeteria
• cost-of-living increases
• coach class
• Metro
• non-descript building
• ballpoint

Them

• 6- figure salary
• catered lunches
• annual bonuses
• first class
• car service
• prestigious address
• Mont Blanc

Them

• 2600 billable hours
• unstarted novel
• spell-checking
• settlement discussions
• day measured in 6-minute increments
• office politics
• history of witnesses
• weekend in file room
• endless depositions
• civil discovery
• finding precedents
• footnote in brief
• paralegal support
• work unappreciated
  by clients
• see family late at night in unfamiliar surroundings

 

Office of
General Counsel

• 10 federal holidays & 13-26 days of leave
• novel legal issues
• globe-trotting
• treaty negotiations
• day measured in time zones visited
• political offices
• witness to history
• weekend in Paris
• Presidential findings
• footnote in history
• civil wars
• paramilitary support
• work unappreciated by targets
• meet contact late at night in unfamiliar surroundings