I worked as support staff in a major law firm before I went to law school. I think that is the best of both worlds.

My "job" was to be on call for 8 hours a day to help attorneys file paperwork all over the US or subpoena people around the world. Some weeks I'd be so fucking bkred my boss would just say, "lets go take a long lunch" and we'd fuck off for a few hours.

Some weeks it was busy as hell, but it was only 8 hours a day.

And every friday, we'd be in the penthouse having drinks and food looking down from our downtown highrise on Chicago's skyline.

It was cool. For a while.

Granted, I wasn't the attorney. I had all the fringe benefits, all the vacation time, profit sharing, etc. And I didn't have to bill my time or draft legal documents. I had to know a narrow subset of the rules of procedure for a handful of courts in the country and I had to maintain a list of reliable process servers to do much of the actual work for me.