I thought about being a lawyer once, but it seemed like it was too much arguing. 
Well the job a lawyer can vary a lot across jurisdiction, but yes I believe arguing is always one of them.
Do you know anything else about what they do?
A lawyer is person who practice law, but not necessarily an attorney, sometimes paralegal, advocates and counselors are called lawyers too.
I've never heard of paralegals being called lawyers. I've always thought of them as assistants!
Paralegal
A paralegal is an individual who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency, or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible. Paralegals perform tasks requiring knowledge of the law and legal procedures. The exact nature of their work and limitations that the law places on the tasks they are allowed to undertake vary between nations and jurisdictions. A paralegal is not a lawyer but is typically employed by a law office or internal legal department of a
the Cabinet Mission which might possibly have secured a united India and saved the massacres. I do not believe that he really worked for an understanding with the Muslims, when his influence might have secured it. He was always the lawyer and the bania who would drive a hard bargain and then find some legal quibble to deprive his opponent of what he had seemed to gain. I always thought he [Gandhi] had more of malevolence than benevolence in him, but who am I to judge, and how can an Englishman estimate