i work as an attorney.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A lawyer is a person who practices law, as a paralegal, advocate, barrister, attorney, counselor, solicitor, or chartered legal executive. Working as a lawyer involves the practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific individualized problems, or to advance the interests of those who hire lawyers to perform legal services. The role of the lawyer varies greatly across legal jurisdictions, and so it can be treated here in only the most general terms. In practice, legal jurisdictions exercise their right to determine who is recognized as being a lawyer. As a result, the meaning of the term \"lawyer\" may vary from place to place. In most countries, particularly civil law countries, there has been a tradition of giving many legal tasks to a variety of civil law notaries, clerks, and scriveners. These countries do not have \"lawyers\" in the American sense, insofar as that term refers to a single type of general-purpose legal services provider; rather, their legal professions consist of a large number of different kinds of law-trained persons, known as jurists, some of whom are advocates who are licensed to practice in the courts. It is difficult to formulate accurate generalizations that cover all the countries with multiple legal professions, because each country has traditionally had its own peculiar method of dividing up legal work among all its different types of legal professionals.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think it would be a rewarding job to be a lawyer, do you think so?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Somewhat. You have to be good at the practical application of legal theory to solve specific problems"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes I would think so. I think they typically have to have a college degree too right?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, and since a lawyer can be anyone who practices law in some form, the kind of education differs."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Right I have heard of paralegals too. I know they make a lot of money compared to most other professions"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There are certified paralegals that have to pass the Certified Paralegal exam in the U.S. to be a CL or CP."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh okay thats right. I wonder what the income difference is in a lawyer and a paralegal"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not sure but in Canada, paralegals can work as independent practitioners."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is interesting, I always thought it was like a nurse practitioner that has to work under a doctor, I wonder how successful independent practitioners are in comparison to lawyers?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I really don't know. Also the meaning of the word \"lawyer\" can differ from country to country."}]