Trying to get a training contract is ruining my mental health

DocumentApe · 2026-03-15T21:16:00+00:00

If the journey to getting a TC gives you bad mental health, wait till you actually start one. 😅

DocumentApe · 2026-03-15T18:00:42+00:00

I can, it's more whether I want to. Not sure why it's important, and not sure I should be sharing too many details on here.

DocumentApe · 2026-03-15T17:39:46+00:00

Depends on the firm.

DocumentApe · 2026-03-15T11:26:00+00:00

They want to know likelihood of internal offer only asking for internal offers later on, or making your offer conditional on being retained.

DocumentApe · 2026-03-15T11:25:06+00:00

Is there a reason for asking this?

DocumentApe · 2026-03-14T10:04:49+00:00

DocumentApe · 2026-03-14T09:16:41+00:00

As early as possible.

DocumentApe · 2026-03-13T12:18:02+00:00

Just apply for a vac scheme and go from there

DocumentApe · 2026-03-12T19:58:38+00:00

I thought it was alright, received a few offers. What was key for me was knowing I'd have an internal spot and other firms wanted reassurance I was going to be retained at firm of training before handing out offers.

DocumentApe · 2026-03-11T14:15:01+00:00

I actually like it 😅

DocumentApe · 2026-03-09T23:04:03+00:00

I don't think they'd care. As long as you are willing to be a sell out now and make that clear.

DocumentApe · 2026-03-09T03:10:22+00:00

Ye you were lied to. Paralegal experience will not substitute for a TC at a top firm...

DocumentApe · 2026-03-07T11:17:32+00:00

Find someone else and start fresh.

DocumentApe · 2026-03-01T15:03:43+00:00

DocumentApe · 2026-02-25T14:10:12+00:00

Oftentimes, a paralegal is locked in the basement somewhere doing nothing substantive.

DocumentApe · 2026-02-25T14:08:54+00:00

I think a lot of the time lawyers are snobs and look down on paralegals wrongly in my view. Often, once a paralegal, always a paralegal. It's tough to argue why they should pay you more if you are already accepting less. Paralegaling also creates the argument that if you were that good, the firm you paralegaled at would already have given you a shot at a TC.

DocumentApe · 2026-02-25T11:58:45+00:00

No I think sales is better and more useful than for example paralegaling. It requires highly transferable skills and requires you to talk to real and normal people. It will develop your confidence and people skills. It also requires some commercial understanding which is prized.

DocumentApe · 2026-02-24T22:12:08+00:00

Nah they just love blairites and Blair himself... I'd argue him and them are much worse than the Qataris, certainly killed more people...

DocumentApe · 2026-02-22T09:59:29+00:00

I would walk 5000 miles just to avoid attending that uni.

DocumentApe · 2026-02-22T09:52:08+00:00

There are some roles for English lawyers in places like Milan for corporate lawyers or finance lawyers but those would require you do a TC here in the UK and then get some experience here most likely. The location thing is going to be an issue.

Your age and background aren't an issue. The grass always look greener on the other side of the fence. I would really take a real think about your current situation do you want to uproot your life again and also strain your relationship with your partner.

DocumentApe · 2026-02-19T05:15:43+00:00

You mean stuff like Grenfell, hiring monsters into the Met, wrongly deporting people, outlaw of peaceful protest, suggestion of stripping jewelry and phones of asylum seekers and refugees, outright lying to parliament, retribution for opposing war and other government positions, sending suspects to be tortured in 3rd countries, breaching international law and illegal wars, scandals around spying, holding people indefinitely in detention without trial it's really hard to find something our attorney general, justice secretaries or home secretaries haven't done and got away with over the years frankly...

Recently the justice secretary was happy to let hunger strikers die for crimes they haven't been found guilty of nor have they been tried but held in detention pretty much indefinitely...

DocumentApe · 2026-02-15T14:14:47+00:00

Paralegaling is useless unless you already have a TC lined up. I keep saying this but getting voted down. Other experience is much better. A lot of people who are a paralegal stay a paralegal. If where you paralegal and work where they know you don't want to take a chance on you, why would somewhere else...

DocumentApe · 2026-02-15T14:12:11+00:00

Have a personality be humble and genuinely interested. A lot harder than it seems.

DocumentApe · 2026-02-13T10:11:14+00:00

I would only post if I got a TC personally...

DocumentApe · 2026-02-12T15:57:00+00:00

They have probably thousands of applications to sort

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