What should you do with your life? How do you spend your days? What kind of work will you do over your lifetime? These are some of the most important questions in any persons life. Many people in the world have no choice as to the work they do, and they work on their family’s farms, shops, restaurants or they adopt the parents trades. Other people often get to choose what profession they want to learn and work at, during their life. When I was in my early teens I wanted to be an engineer, because I was good at math in school and got very good grades. My father was a knowns scientist, a professor and a PHD and two of my older siblings also went into science. This meant that it was natural for me to do the same, i.e. to adopt the family trade. In junior college I went first into the natural sciences but I grew tired of biology and chemistry, and then I was not sure about what I wanted to do with my life. I knew I wanted to do something that would be a battle of the mind, something that would pay well and somethings that would provide me some status and respect. What I came up with was the legal profession and becoming a lawyer. So that is what I did, I went to law school. Law school in Iceland in the 1990s what the hardest field to study at the University of Iceland, along with medical school. The flunk rate in law school each year was 90%. Well I passed the entry tests, met my future wife and then became a lawyer. I soon became an attorney at law and then specialized in Intellectual Property Law and tech contracts for the IP industries. I am the black sheep of my family, and everyone in my family is fine with it.
