Oh I have a great story related to this:

I studied Political Science in undergrad. My Universities Political Science department regularly had speakers, and would email all the students to come by.

Well once everyone was excited because one of the top Civil Rights attorneys in the United States was coming by to speak about being a lawyer, as so many people studying Political Science consider themselves "pre-law". He was also a professor at a top Law School.

I showed up, and so did a couple hundred others. He began talking about some of the interesting ground-breaking cases he was a part of recently, and everyone was super excited. You could see all of the students imagining themselves slamming their briefcases on the table in the courtroom and giving some loud in your face speech to the jury, Law and Order style.

Anyway after discussing the cases he begins talking about what it's actually like to be a Lawyer. The first thing he told everyone was that the actual appearing in the court room is about 1% of your job, and that's only if you're a trial attorney. He said that for every single hour he spends arguing the case in court, he has spent 100 hours prepping for it. Reading case law, writing briefs, preparing his clients, debriefing witnesses. He said that if you don't like studying, reading, and writing, change your career path because that is the vast majority of the job. He went on and on about how draining it is, and just how much paper work goes in to it, and just how little giving speeches in court there is.

I looked around the room and most of the kids looked shocked and depressed. Some even got up to leave. In the end he asked anyone who was still interested to come and talk to him and only about 10 people did.

It was amazing.