I have decided to take a major step toward personal freedom and independence: I am going to start my own law firm. For a long time I shied away from this because of all the headaches associated with running a full practice, but a little market research has shown a strong likelihood that I can work on a contractual basis to focus on researching, writing, and oral arguments -- the things I'm best at. Better still, I already have at least one person who wants to partner with me, and we can run this business out of our respective homes with little overhead. Will it pan out? I don't know, but I do know that I'd be crazy not to try. I have established a presence in my new home state; I can draw clients from my new state and the old one; I'm unmarried and have good savings to invest in myself; and if this indeed pans out, I can work from pretty much anywhere and have a lot more free time.
In short, I am making a bid to own my life. If there is a silver lining to be found in the "new normal" of vanishing jobs and economic insecurity, perhaps it is to motivate more people to take risks and think outside the box, thereby re-invigorating the creative spirit that once made America great.
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