Only jury I got picked for was before law school (traffic case in small town Texas where not enough prospective jurors appeared and the judge sent the cops out to round up some townsfolk, which included me). Been on two venire panels since I got licensed, never got picked. For years, Texas lawyers were exempt from service, but somebody decided that wasn’t fair (though I would virtually never have a lawyer on a jury).
"We had other folks we needed to get rid of worse than we needed to get rid of you!"
That was a true statement. It was a bad, bad panel. Some elderly people with hearing issues, a bunch of young college aged kids with no life experience (not what you want on a will contest!), and a couple of folks whose English was shaky. But one lawyer said that after he asked me if I could follow the judge's instructions on the law, I responded "Sure. I work for a Court of Appeals judge. His name goes on the opinion. I follow his instructions!" He said after that he was sure I'd follow the law. And we did.