The Accidental Big Book

My career had never seemed to take off the way it should have, given my obviously enormous talents. Maybe the liquid lunches that I had almost every day had something to do with that. My “unproductive” afternoons become more frequent as time passed. Still, I actually had some skill and could often talk my way through anything for my client. I was a partner in a three lawyer firm in my home town and I was stuck in a steadily worsening cycle of booze, hangovers and increasingly sloppy work habits.