When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be

Reasons I Should Become a Tax and Estate Attorney

• There are only two things certain in life: death and taxes. So at least I'll always have a job.
  
• According to a footnote in my Property book: "Estate attorneys will likely generate more than $25 billion in revenue from servicing estates in the $1 million or more range during the 1996-2005 period. This figure is greater than the net income generated by all partnerships for all services in 1994." I'll get a piece of that pie.
  

Reasons I Should NOT Become a Tax and Estate Attorney

• My friends make fun of me for being a nerd.
  
• Then again, I'm already a nerd regardless of the future job choice.
• Tax Attorneys are known alcoholics. In the words of Alton Brown: "Except for tax attorneys nothing sits so nicely on the side of a martini glass as does a shrimp."
  
• Then again, becoming an alcoholic after law school would just mean that I'd have to start drinking less.
• People at cocktail parties give me strange looks when I tell them what I want to do.
  
• Then again, the same people ask me if they can give me a call once I graduate.
• My friends make fun of me for being a nerd.
• All of my relatives will want me to a) do their taxes and b) write their wills.
• Then again, I can just write myself in as a beneficiary.
  
• Did I mention that my friends make fun of me for being a nerd?