A Career as a Lawyer

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You had better know what you want to do when you get older and you better like it because that is what you will be doing for the rest of your life. However, most of the jobs today needs at least 2-4 years of schooling. I want to be a lawyer. A lawyer will almost always get paid a lot to represent someone or some business. All a lawyer has to do is argue for their client and make them sound good and help them out in legal cases. Also, the lawyer gets to tell their client how much they want to be paid. I think that a lawyering job would be good for me because I love to argue, persuade people, and help people. There are few careers that the general public has the most misconceptions about and lawyers are one of the most common.
Lawyers are hired by people and by businesses to help them in legal cases (“Lawyer”Whats para.1). Your skills in the field of lawyering will only improve with on the job training (“Lawyer” What’s para. 4). Almost all of your training will come from on the job by actually going out there and trying and learning from your mistakes (“Lawyer” What’s para. 5). Th...

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