ABSTRACT
Some people know from a very early age what they want to be when they grow up. This was not the case for me. I thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but I never really took the time to learn what that meant. In 1985, as I was approaching college graduation, I remained ambivalent. I requested applications to various law schools and one for the Peace Corps. After considerable thought (the Peace Corps application was much thicker than the law school applications), I applied to law school and was accepted. "Whew," I thought, "I can delay this real world bit a little longer." During orientation, all the first year students took a personality inven-tory and were placed in four subgroups. The other three groups had 72,48, and 20 students. There were two of us in my groupand we were both already questioning our motives and commitment for attending law school. Feeling like the personality inventory confirmed what he already knew, the other individual in my subgroup withdrew the first day of classes, and feeling no pressure to carry the legal torch for our personality type, I withdrew the next day.
