i work as a legal assistant in a law firm that basically only handles real estate work.
[{"role": "system", "content": "In English common law, real property, real estate, realty, or immovable property is land which is the property of some person and all structures (also called improvements or fixtures) integrated with or affixed to the land, including crops, buildings, machinery, wells, dams, ponds, mines, canals, and roads, among other things. The term is historic, arising from the now-discontinued form of action, which distinguished between real property disputes and personal property disputes. Personal property was, and continues to be, all property that is not real property. In countries with personal ownership of real property, civil law protects the status of real property in real-estate markets, where estate agents work in the market of buying and selling real estate. Scottish civil law calls real property \"heritable property\", and in French-based law, it is called \"immobilier\" (\"immovable property\"). The word \"real\" derives from Latin \"res\" (\"thing\"), which was used in Middle English to mean \"relating to things, especially real property\". In common law, real property was property that could be protected by some form of real action, in contrast to personal property, where a plaintiff would have to resort to another form of action.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You know what's hectic and tense work?  Real estate.  You really are working hand to mouth and tensely waiting on legal proceedings from courts and such"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It seems difficult, do you know how one gets a real estate license?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "To become a real estate broker?  You have to study and take a license test with your local state.  This is to ensure everybody buying and selling land is recorded on a public ledger."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That makes sense, I wonder what the average salary of a real estate broker is, I guess it varies a lot."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The average salary of a real estate broker is $76,000, but quite a bit of that depends on the kind of commission they get per sale."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's quite a bit higher than I expected. Have you ever thought of going into the real estate business?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Unfortunately, being a real estate broker is sometimes a bit of an insular job market and lot of the old brokers are very picky and choosy about who they hire.  Even with great credentials you may find yourself simply unfavored and thus unhired."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see, well they do say it's more about who you know than what you know, and it seems that rings true in real estate as well."}]