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“You know you dazzle me?” Mike blurted. “You are unlike anyone I have ever met. And I mean that in the most positive way.”
“I am taking that as a compliment,” Emily smiled.
He nodded, then; “I don’t want you to leave the office; maybe if…”
“No. ” Emily replied as if she read his mind and taking a swallow of her coffee;
” I do my work. But the point is; this is a job. I do it because I am paid. If I was not paid, I wouldn’t do it. Outside of work, I do what I want. I am not giving up my evenings, my weekends, for the Firm’s profit. I am not sacrificing now so that forty years from now I can be senior counsel. I don’t care about that. I care about life.”
She was serious and decided. Looking into Mike’s eyes she said:
“If it is more important for those Seniors to show ‘ownership’ of the Juniors by destroying their weekends and causing them to push their personal life in a corner, I don’t need to be there and I don’t want to be there.”
“If you were gone….we wouldn’t see each other… would we?”
“You have my number,” she replied, “You know where I live.”
