In this day and age a fair number of people are inspired to enter careers based on television and film portrayals of that occupation. This isn't really new, I'd note. I've heard of a fair number of people being inspired to become lawyers because of older films, like To Kill A Mockingbird, or Anatomy of a Murder. Both fine films, I'd note. I'll be the same is currently true for people becoming fireman today, as fireman dramas have been pretty common. War stories, of course, seem to be perpetually.
But a person should really think about it if they are saying things like "I loved the courtroom drama and knew I wanted to do that".
We love the depictions of stress in story as we like artificial stress. We don't like real stress, however.
Stressful situations are usually agony for the people in them. A person would be foolish to watch The Sands of Iwo Jima and think they wanted to be a combat Marine, as being a combat Marine is not fun at all. Seeing a trial lawyer in a movie may be fun, but that doesn't mean actually working a trial is (just ask anyone who has ever done one). There's no doubt a million other examples.
So, if we're looking for excitement in a career, we should keep in mind there's good excitement and bad. If we think something looks fun because it's "exciting", we should consider what that excitement really would be like.
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