Being a lawyer is time-consuming. First, you’ll have to subject yourself to spending three years in law school cramming knowledge into your brain. After you graduate, you’ll spend an inordinate amount of time trying to pass the bar exam and find a job. (If you’re incredibly lucky, you’ll have a job waiting for you at a Biglaw firm.) Last, but not least, once you’re working as an attorney, you’ll get to spend the vast majority of your waking hours at your desk.
Most practicing lawyers are lucky if they see sunlight, let alone have any semblance of what could be called a social life. There just aren’t enough hours in the day to accomplish all of the tasks that need to be done. That’s why being a lawyer landed on the latest ranking of careers that could have disastrous effects on your social life.
How high did lawyer rank on the “No Life Careers” list? Keep reading to find out…
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Being a lawyer placed in the top 5 in Yahoo’s list of Careers That Could Ruin Your Social Life:
1. Surgeon
2. Registered Nurse
3. Lawyer
4. Chief Executive
5. Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agent
These are all high-stress careers that demand far more than their fair share of your time, but being a lawyer is perhaps the most hazardous to your social life of all. Work/life balance is a myth in this profession. Not only will you not have the time to dedicate to having a healthy social life, but even if you do manage to sneak out of your office, you’ll always have billing on your mind. After all, you want that bonus, don’t you?
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Here’s what career advancement specialist Lyn O’Brien had to say to Yahoo about being a lawyer:
If you enjoy spending time constantly surrounded by others who are too busy to interact with you, but instead are each silently cursing the day they decided to take a boring desk job simply for the purposes of servicing their high law school debts, then by all means, be a lawyer. If you want to have a real social life and actual work/life balance, then perhaps you should consider choosing a different profession.
Careers That Could Ruin Your Social Life [Yahoo! Education]