This is the reality but not the perception people have. Most people’s exposure to lawyers is from shows like Better Call Saul. What’s funny is that if they paid attention to the show, they’d see real work being done, in the form of endless hours of looking at documents.
But those scenes are all done as montages with sexy music, so people don’t realize how boring they can be.
All of those professions (except construction perhaps) would probably involve lots of sitting and staring at screens, but that’s not what kids think they are. The engineer gets to design a thing, then gets to see it built. The lawyer does lots of paperwork but kids think of the trial when they argue their case in front of judges and jurors and win.
Mostly sit all day looking at text on a screen. Diagrams if you're lucky.
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Sits all day looking at text on a screen.