First, no career is permanent. There's no reason you can't be an attorney now and then something else when you feel called to make a change. Let your career be a reflection of who you are right now. You can bring higher consciousness to any fields, and law is certainly one that would benefit from more conscious decision-making.
Secondly, at higher levels of consciousness, helping others and helping yourself become equivalent. In the long run, a heart cell cannot reach its full potential without helping the brain cells in the same body. While there is a degree of achievement that can be had in isolation, it's nothing compared to what can be done by working for the good of the whole body.
If you want to live an extraordinary life, you must eventually take responsibility for building an extraordinary environment. Whenever you help someone... somewhere... experience some kind of gain, you help the entire planet. Perhaps that effect is very small, but the effect is there. Helping the planet creates a better environment in which you live, which therefore benefits you as well. Moreover, a deep sense of joy comes through when you know without a doubt you're living a life that's having this kind of effect.
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