being a lawyer is slightly better than being a nutrionist

[luckyboy]

heres a list of the "best" 50 jobs, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/top50/index.html
interesting to say the least, and a college professor is number 2, maybe i'll move to rural america and work at a juco, that would be the life, except for living in rural america

[icf]

maybe i'm just overly influenced by the media, but i'm surprised software engineer/it analyst is still up there -- i would've assumed outsourcing would have an effect on those?

[tenth8sphere]

What lawyer?

A biglaw man working 80 hours a week for 100k+?
A independent practice lawyer with his own hours but only 50ishk?
A medium firm man with negotiable hours and negotiable salary?

Lawyer encompasses a massive field of people, from top school graduates in judicial clerkships, to tier 4 grads just opening up their own independent practices, and everything inbetween. I think the quality of your career depends heavily on what lawyer you're talking about. Shoot, I think even the same school grads would have very different lives in government versus bigfirm, etc.

I really don't think you can accurately group lawyers (or most other jobs) like that list did. Either way, top 50 ain't shabby.

[Leaf2001br]

Look out, the nurses are bearing down on us!  I knew I should have been a real estate appraiser.