Hazards of the Profession

There seems a glamour attached with every profession.

Like, if you are a defense personnel​, people look up to you with awe. Or, if you are​ Politician​ (in India​) (or even belong to one remotely) the probability of people presuming ​'stuff' about you increases manifold.

 “I am a lawyer”. Each time I say this, I receive an open-mouthed expression invariably. They don’t seem to believe. Some show concern-“But…You don’t look like one”.

 The next curious questions are shot -

“Do you fight for criminals or against them?”

“Do you have a selfie with a murdered body?”

“How do you manage to wear the bat-man cape all day long, does it not get struck in the wheels when you drive”.

It is believed that being a lawyer is a fun-filled movie script job where, in a courtroom, random people from far flung areas come to witness the proceedings where lawyers plead, judges question, witnesses dodge while continuous jokes are cracked, or red-eyed criminals with thirty inches shoulders are about to go scot-free to balance the crime in the city.

They imagine a normal day for a lawyer is when you attend court hearings, thump the tables and with a high pitch in the last dialogue win the case, with court-room filled up with chorus of people cheering you.

And then you return to your office where (lusting) women in pencil-skirts are waiting to celebrate your victory with champagne and your boss tells how awesome you are (And yes, this gets repeated everyday).

Then I turn them off by sharing that my life is not happening at all because I am an irksome corporate lawyer. Our bosses yell at us and our colleagues bitch (but yes I stay between criminals :) )

And our courtrooms are extremely boring and sleepy places where law sections running into several pages are read and re-read. Of course, you are free to sit at any proceedings while you have given your car for washing.

Last reaction that actually shuts me off- “You are a lawyer… How do you get time to write blogs?”  

P.S: And, certainly, lawyers’ lives are absolutely not like Harvey Spector’s.