Just in case you weren't depressed yet

Just roaming around the web and found this: Wait: "Temporary attorney" is a career? This guy seems shocked that there are people who do what we do. Sometimes, so am I, I guess, but I was a little surprised at how dismissive they were:

Contract attorneys appear a discontented lot. A host of blogs have popped up railing about life as a contract attorney, including Temporary Attorney: The Sweatshop Edition; [Houston-based] Document Review, Texas Style; Black Sheep of Philly Contract Attorneys; and My Attorney Blog: The Life of a Contract Attorney in Temp Town, Washington D.C.

Got some links in there I haven't followed yet. Just disappointed I wasn't one of them. Alas, what's a girl to do?

Was that their first clue?

As I started my new gig today, got an email from a friend and sometime-coworker, who is on a project with a bunch of very young temps, just out of law school and, apparently, from privileged backgrounds (meaning parents paid for law school). They wonder why she's so "bitter" and apparently spend all their time at work "looking for 1) jobs and 2) shoes." Anyway, my friend wrote:

I finally got around to sharing your blogs to my kids here. They said that it depressed them and they stopped reading.

My immediate reaction (and response) was this:

The blog depressed them and the job doesn't? Go figure.

These people apparently are not paying attention.