Over-40 Lawyers Pursue Rock 'n' Roll Fantasies, Diving Records
If you find yourself daydreaming about life outside the law office, consider these three lawyers who are over 40 and pursuing their sports and rock-and-roll fantasies.
California corporate lawyer Robert King, 45, is on sabbatical as he prepares for an international competition in freediving, which is kind of like scuba diving—but without the breathing apparatus. King is the United States’ top breath-hold diver, the Miami Herald reports. In some categories he wears fins and a mask to descend; in others he hauls himself up and down along a rope.
He cautions others not to hold their breath under water without a trained instructor, and explains that breath-holder divers can experience the bends if they don’t take the proper precautions.
Two other lawyers profiled in recent articles are pursuing their love for rock-and-roll. Washington, D.C., lawyer Patrick Hand, 51, has a successful private practice, but he is spending half of August promoting an ill-fated concert tour featuring a band called Love, the Washington Post reports.
“It’s everyone’s fantasy: With the years slipping by, successful career man decides he must live his dream, in this case liberating the rock fanatic within,” the story says. The tour faces many obstacles, however, after other musicians in the tour “dropped off—or dropped dead,” according to the story.
Then there is New Orleans tax and estate-planning lawyer Bruce Spizer, 54, who has written 2,592 questions about the Beatles for a new Trivial Pursuit game about the band, the Associated Press reports. He has also written seven books about the Beatles, and takes some artistic license in describing his authorship of the hard-bound volumes.
“In effect, yes,” Spizer told AP, “I am the tax man and then I got the bug to be a paperback writer.”
