A partnership deferred, a corner office mirage

I tried to picture the nameplate, engraved with my title

As I toiled in the billable hour mines

What did it promise? Prestige? Authority? Another 20 years of Zoom calls?

Was the climb worth the soul-crushing grind?

I kept dreaming of that day—Of Counsel, at last.

But the firm’s memo simply read:

"Congrats—here’s your new hourly target."

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