What to Expect When You're Practicing

I feel like this should be a class in law school. It should include lessons like:

• how to handle your mentor leaving
• what to wear when you will be inspecting a roof
• how to climb a ladder
• how to copy & paste draft discovery
• how to knock and enter a partner's office
• what do you do when people don't like each other
• how to balance your caseload
• what not to wear, law office edition
• whom do you trust
• when do you tell someone you are too busy to take on something new
• being a rainmaker (and what the hell is one)
• how to handle the weight you'll gain your first year

No one gives you a guidebook, and the training wheels come off way too early.  My mantra "Pretend you are calm and cry when you get home."