My career is tolerable. I'm relatively disengaged, although that might have more to do with a complete absence of goals in life at this point.
I picked law out of the "career vending machine" after spending five years in college doing pretty much nothing (technically, I played lots of computer games, read a lot of books, ate a lot of pizza, and slept a lot). I didn't really want to be in college, and I had no interest in engineering, but it was free.
Once I realized that there was no good outcome for me in engineering (particularly since it involved industrial chemicals) I spent three years in law school doing nothing, too (well, I again played a lot of computer games, including in Amy Chua's class), so there's pretty much a black hole in my life from 18 to 25, where I just kind of sat there disengaged from what I was doing.
I doubt that my approach to life is very common though.
In hindsight, I should have taken an active approach to college rather than a passive, "I'll just wait this out until I get a degree", approach.
