I know several lawyers, and all of them think that they have real jobs.
As an attorney I can attest to the fact that Lawyers do not produce anything. Being an attorney is not a "real job." It is a profession where you are either in the business of taking money from your opponent and giving some of it to your client, or where you try to keep the other attorney from taking your client's money and instead YOU take it.
If a lawyer actually produces something it is called a "Law". We have too many of them as it is. We certainly don't need lawyers running the Treasury Department. We need plumbers. We need someone with exprerience in plugging up leaks.