You may not doubt the value you offer clients, but two recent pieces of research should warm the cockles of your heart when it comes to your importance to the overall American economy and your ranking on the list of the best jobs.
First, the economy
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis announced in late April that the finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing industry group, which it calls by the acronym FIRE, "continued to contribute more than any other industry group to real GDP growth–24% in 2005," marking the third straight year FIRE had done so.
