I wonder if most people find the substance of their work or the quality of people they work with as more important. I imagine its the latter. I changed firms recently and the new folk are way more mellow. We have lots of litigation meetings at bars. I used to do work on the Enron case at my old place, and trying to get money back from those scoundrels was fascinating to me, and worthwhile. Now I still am doing pro bono work (we need many new family courts here) but mostly am doing cases revolving around sports. I sure do like sports, but sports law doesn't set me off. Still I'd rather do the less interesting law with the better vibe. Mayhaps that means that no law that I've found so far really speaks to me as a calling. It would be nice to really get wrapped up in something substantive or precedential, but even constitutional law has its boring procedural aspects. Mebbe I just will have to wait until I own a bar in the French Quarter to find true vocational bliss.