Ask a resident surgeon how many hours they work? How stressful that is. Ask pretty much anyone who is building their professional career. You aren't entitled to anything you don't work for. I was on $45k when I was an articled clerk 6 years ago. I didn't eat dinner for nearly 2 years. I didn't cry about. I was doing what I enjoyed. If you don't want to work long hours in an office, become a tradie. I can't understand how we can deliver reasonably priced services to people that NEED our help if our junior workforce feels like they are entitled to work for more money, more responsibility and less hours. Even when most of the time, it's not just the juniors putting in the long hours. How do you learn to be the best in your field if you aren't being taught over a relatively short period of time under a reasonable amount of pressure? I don't know about anyone else, but there seems to be this real "we are not allowed to ever be told no" to this generation of junior lawyers.