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Well here I am at 68 having qualified in 1974 and intending to carry on with my well established high street firm for as long as I am fit enough.
Basically, I still enjoy the interactions with most clients and a reasonable income.
These problems have always existed but they are worse now due to regulatory micromanagement that draws too much time away from doing the actual job and imposes an additional layer of risk over and above what doing the actual job entails.
Additionally, many past decisions by politicians and vested interests have made the job harder to do well.
In the end, though, it is a matter of whether one is able to accommodate the ups and downs of a highly technical profession which are not well understood by the general public.
Poorly managed firms do often impose excessive financial and workload pressures on their staff and there are myriad ways in which legal firms can be poorly managed.
I can only point out that there is a vast variety now available in the world of work and those who feel so pressured must really vote with their feet and either chose another vocation entirely or shift to a well managed employer, or do as I did some 30 years ago which was to set up a new firm and do what they want to do in the way that they want to do it.
A balance can be achieved between workload, personal and family demands and financial needs even within the legal profession as it now is.