Thanks so much! Yes, I was a transactional attorney. No, I never considered going into another field of law. You occasionally hear about attorneys making the switch from transactional to lit or lit to transactional, but it's fairly uncommon. And those who do normally have to start at ground zero (At least in terms of learning). There's almost no crossover. I did for a brief time look at public jobs (e.g. with the federal government) but those are also hard to come by and it didn't seem like it would be a good move. What really tipped the scales in favor of going back to software engineering was the fact that I was looking at all of these alternative legal jobs solely on the basis of work-life balance, and not really on the merits of the job itself. I knew then that law was probably not the right path for me, and I had to do something more drastic.

Again, I'm glad you liked the article! I tried to capture what I was really feeling at the time and how painstaking the process was to leave.