查了10年报告，68%政府律师满意，44%大公司律师满意。Top学校出来的最少满意，最差学校出来的最多满意。

Government lawyers are happiest (68 percent report satisfaction) and big firm lawyers are least satisfied (44 percent) with their careers. In between those extremes fall solo practitioners and small firm lawyers, who generally report that their work autonomy adds to their satisfaction with their job.

Graduates of fourth-tier law schools are the happiest of the lot. Maybe they appreciate their work knowing how close they came to not making the cut at all. Graduates of top-tier law schools, after all their hard work and academic success, perhaps enter practice with unrealistic expectations about the happiness it might bring. Only 27 percent of grads from top-10 law schools call themselves very satisfied with their career choice, compared with 43 percent of grads of fourth-tier schools.

An American Bar Foundation survey of lawyers who had been in practice for over three years found African-American lawyers happiest with their decisions to become lawyers. They were also most satisfied with the substance of their work. The higher levels of reported satisfaction among African-American lawyers is partially attributable to their practice setting—they are more likely than lawyers of other races to work for the government or a non-profit organization.

The good news is that lawyers, although slightly below doctors, rank in the top half of the 198 occupations surveyed in terms of job satisfaction. Roofers, in case you were curious, were least satisfied with their jobs. It apparently is not a lot of fun being stuck up on hot asphalt by yourself, laying one dang shingle after another, and wondering whether you might fall off or get struck by lightening.

 

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• 我一个朋友是public defender,经常跟杀人犯打交道，日子过得蛮快乐的。她说她在私人的law firm里就很压抑 -Manymore- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 17:59:51

• 看别人一个个进监狱，而自己是freeman，不快乐才怪了。 -money4ivy- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 18:15:36

• 那倒不是这个意思。Public defender毕竟压力小，同事之间相处也愉快，她觉得做事也有意义。钱少很多就是。 -Manymore- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 18:22:02

• 若是在法庭上呆过就知道庭里法官，律师，警察是多么轻松。用很多税钱啊 -ek0124- ♂ (12 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 19:07:08

• 工资比在外边私人公司干可差到姥姥家了 -Manymore- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 20:30:47

• 原来医生还是最满意自己的工作哈。表面上最矫情的也是医生们了。政府律师大概轻松些，钱当然也少些。 -monochrome- ♀ (6 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 18:22:54

• 当然，医生的孩子继续做医生的最多。 -茶园15- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 19:01:08

• 我认识两律师，都是哥大拿的学位 -洲河- ♀ (234 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 18:45:24

• 又多查了查，报道律师对工作不满意的也不少。查了查工作满意度排行，第一名是clerk，细 -雾里看花123- ♂ (14 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 18:48:41

• clerk? i think it should be clergy. -壮士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 18:57:21

• You are right: clergy -雾里看花123- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 19:00:50

• i am a genius! -壮士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 19:02:33

• 医生和病人一致对付疾病；律师是想办法把同行整下去。上top法学院就已经在起跑线赢了。 -yundao- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2013 postreply 19:13:16