Hillbilly Elegy

what field of law I expected to practice
in. I wasn’t even sure what my questions
about “firm culture” and “work-life
balance” meant. The whole process was
little more than a dog and pony show.
But I didn’t seem like an asshole, so I
was coasting.
Then I hit a wall. The last
interviewer asked me a question I was
unprepared to answer: Why did I want to
work for a law firm? It was a softball,
but I’d gotten so used to talking about my
budding interest in antitrust litigation (an
interest that was at least a little
fabricated) that I was laughably
unprepared. I should have said
something about learning from the best