| Are there downfalls to high paying occupations? | | | | lawyer depends on a few things. Where you work, |
| Everybody wants a job where they can make a lot | | | | big city or rural areas, and the size of your law firm. |
| of money and enjoy their lives, but often these best | | | | Big city attorneys and big law firm attorneys work |
| payed jobs give you financial freedom without the | | | | the most. About 65 hours per week, often times |
| freedom to live the life you want with family or | | | | even more, over 70 hours. Also, when your not |
| friends or maybe to travel. Whatever it may be that | | | | working your firm expects you to be finding new |
| you want to do in life may take money, but it also | | | | clients whether its out to coffee or the golf course |
| may take freedom and time. Are the jobs that pay | | | | you are always trying to recruit. So basically your job |
| the most giving you that freedom? | | | | never stops, other than the 2 weeks vacation you |
| Take being a doctor for instance, this is a highly | | | | get. If you work at a smaller firm, or smaller area |
| payed occupation that requires a lot of time and | | | | you will probably work on average 55 hours per |
| stress. Doctors of course earn themselves a healthy | | | | week, which is still a whole lot to take on. Plus like |
| living, but at the average minimum work 51 hours per | | | | the big firms they are always expecting you to be |
| week. Often times these hours are difficult too, | | | | recruiting new clients. Most lawyers say their jobs |
| because when you work as a doctor in a hospital | | | | never stop and I'm not quite sure that's' how I'd like |
| you never know when you may have to perform an | | | | to live my life. |
| emergency surgery. Not to mention the stress you | | | | Engineering is another high paying occupation, one |
| have to deal with. Can you imagine having to have | | | | that can require a lot of your time as well. I have |
| someones life in your hands? As a doctor when a | | | | come to find that as an engineer you can make |
| surgery doesn't go well or the patient just doesn't | | | | about $89,000 a year. Typically that requires working |
| make it I think you would sometimes take that | | | | 50+ hours per week. As with all jobs being an |
| personally and that can put extreme stress on a | | | | engineer has deadlines that must be met, so as 50 |
| person. People will never stop getting ill, so the top | | | | hours is what you would like to work some engineers |
| demand jobs, like doctors, will always be here, but so | | | | say they have worked 75+ hours a week to meet a |
| will the stress and the long work hours. That's a lot | | | | deadline. My Uncle is an engineer and he works at |
| for a person to take on to make a good living. | | | | least 55 per week. |
| Another one of the jobs that pay the most is an | | | | Of course we all want one of these jobs that pay |
| attorney. There work hours might be the worst out | | | | the most, but is there something better? Can we |
| of all the high paying occupations. After doing some | | | | have financial freedom, as well as, freedom to live |
| research I found that your hours of work as a | | | | and enjoy our lives as we would like? |