When I was in college, like many students, I spent much time pondering my career choices. It was the 1970s, and many of us felt pulled by the opposing forces of the idealism of the 1960s and the growing materialism of the current decade. My own thought processes about my vocation seemed to parallel the changing times. I entered college expecting to find some kind of career that would allow me to help people in need of some kind of help, and I left four years later to pursue a career in law.