Why I took Law as Career

The question I often face as to how and why I took law as a career. The question is obvious. I started my career as an mechanical engineer, then obtained MBA (Finance) and then degree in law. So the question, why Law? The most prominent reason is independence! I hate the very concept of "Boss". Your actions and even thinking is governed by someone else and his justification for that is nothing more than "company policy" or "direction of higher management". So he himself is not truly independent. Then you can't refuse to do something which you really do not like to do. As a lawyer I can refuse to accept any brief which I believe is not worth handling. The reasons are many. Such as apparent frauds, mis-statements, mis-declaration or plain cheating! I have refused to accept many such briefs which my inner conscious was not ready to accept.

Here are the positive and negative sides of career as lawyer I experienced during last 18 years :
Best things: Total Independence, fresh challenges every day by way of new matters coming to you, no limit to one’s success, a variety of work suited to each one’s practice, long vacations.
Worst things: Delay, frequent adjournment of matters, lack of systematic working by the courts and the absence of good or specialised judges. (the last one is unique to me because mostly the judges are having experience of general civil and criminal law. Whereas I practice in Taxation and Financial Laws. Many judges expressed to me, even in open court, that they do not have any exposure to the law I am arguing!)

What I really do?

well...they say I am a person with 5 degrees and 6 languages. But that happened just like that. I did not deliberate. Interests went on developing and I followed them with all sincerity. I often wonder how life took me through so much diversity. From engineering to finance and then to law via economics and Hindu philosophy. I do read a lot and travel a lot. May be for that reason such interests went on developing within me over years and I followed them. Now I am in late forties. What do I do with all this in background? Well, I believe I enjoy life. I enjoy all things around me. The people, places, cities, food and of course my professional work. Above all, I enjoy being with family; my wife and my two loving daughters. One habit I still enjoy; that is at least once in a week I go out all alone for movie or dinner or just to roam around in the old city on my scooter. Car strictly no-no for me for this purpose. Only scooter! My family has happily accepted this habit. If I am out of the city for professional work, I make it a point to explore that city and take as many pictures as I can.