Reading the comments here reminds me that it is amazing how gullible the unintelligent are. Morons believe any line of bullshit that is being peddled to them. I'm guessing not one of you is self employed. That clearly take the stones none of you possess.
Why would I want to be self employed? I get 35 days vacation. I have a 401k match and a pension. Work falls into my lap ... so I have job security. I just have to show up or work from home and get my work done and I send a lot of that out and have other lawyers do it ... sometimes them doing all the work and just coming to me for approval ... sometimes me revising their work ... sometimes me giving them instructions of how I want them to do the work.
I never have to worry about finding clients or work to do. I get to work with technology your pea brain wouldn't even understand to boot. The kind of shyte that is gonna change the world as we know it.
Private practice blows in comparisons. Always looking for more work and even when you have enough you have to worry that it might dry up ... especially if you are a litigator. I get to do so much more too ... from litigation to licenses to development agreements to FTOs to working on development teams and even inventing things myself that have been filed as patents.
I have the golden ticket and I'm very good at what I do too. So everyone wins!