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It is 1994. I am an intellectual property litigator in Silicon Valley specializing in trademarks at the birth of the commercialized Internet. Netscape goes public in the summer of 1995 and heralds the start of the dot-com era. I am very well paid, well regarded, and being groomed for greater opportunities. There is just one problem; the work is sucking the life out of me one billable hour at a time.

I thought I’d done everything right.