Hillbilly Elegy

interviews, and most led to job offers. I
had sixteen when the week began, though
by the end I was so spoiled (and
exhausted) by the process that I turned
down a couple of interviews. Two years
earlier, I had applied to dozens of places
in the hope of landing a well-paying job
after college but was rebuffed every
time. Now, after only a year at Yale
Law, my classmates and I were being
handed six-figure salaries by men who
had argued before the United States
Supreme Court.
It was pretty clear that there was
some mysterious force at work, and I
had just tapped into it for the first time. I
had always thought that when you need a