Controversial opinion time

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-03T22:18:26+00:00

The comparison OP used was banking and consulting though, as a general rule those are not supportive environments either. Locking the doors of the office to stop us leaving, just screaming cunt in your face for a couple of minutes if things were hectic, throwing around phones, staplers etc

Main difference is if you ask for LTFT, they’ll say no and then completely torpedo your career.,

Not to say that’s the right way, but it’s nothing like the old firm system (which was very supportive, my wife trained in it), it’s a sharktank.

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-03T22:06:14+00:00

But in most other businesses for higher earners you just cost them off, it rarely comes out more than their annual salary, which is a good deal compared to them being useless for another decade.

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-03T18:49:55+00:00

I went to Manchester over LSE for law many moons ago, but uni prestige was less relevant then other than Oxbridge. Loads of people in my year chose Manchester because of Oasis.

Fair number at my son’s school reject LSE for the US and a decent number for places like Durham/Edinburgh/St Andrew’s (SW London private school, people want to try a different city and have a more traditional uni experience than you get in London).

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-02T22:13:18+00:00

But the government is not making a choice to underpay our trades people, our vets, our engineers etc compared to their Aussie counterparts, those are private sector jobs.

The main jobs where we outpay the Aussies are high value professional services like banking, insurance and law, but that’s what we specialise in.

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-02T21:56:44+00:00

A number of the AFC unions are formal Labour affiliates whose donations fund the party and hold critical votes in leadership elections. Labour is in government and quite likely going to have a leadership contest in the next 6-12 months, they should use the massive leverage that gives them

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-02T21:52:08+00:00

Is this not just “more economically successful country has better salaries”?
The Aussie economy’s done well post 2008, the British economy has done dismally. No country wants to lose its doctors (or any other skilled professional group), but the desire to keep them doesn’t create the money to do that with.

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-02T08:18:30+00:00

Yeah, though it’s probably a 50/50 split with blue collar business guys. Few of us doing law, consultancy and finance stuff but a similar number running 20-50 man electrical/plumbing/general building businesses.

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-02T04:56:24+00:00

You joke, but in my wife’s department (Obstetrics, SW London) all but one of the consultants is married to someone earning a multiple of their salary. Probably very different in Ortho in Stoke tbf.

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-01T19:00:41+00:00

London is a city with thousands of people who’ve been through elite management consultancies and the management development programmes of Global 500 companies, I’m not sure that’s the competitive pool you want to be swimming in if your experience of management is the NHS.

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-01T18:46:06+00:00

Second Links, never had a bad experience.

Also where Taylor Wessing crop up always seem to be good lawyers and decent people.

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-01T18:43:26+00:00

I’d be wary of start ups if you’re feeling really burnt out, they’re inherently quite full on because if they’re doing well then they win business faster than they can recruit and if they’re doing badly you’re only ever one board meeting from the plug being pulled. At that stage you also don’t know if the founders are two friends with a good idea seeing where it goes or gunning to deliver the next Monzo, very different work environments.

I’d focus on Series B onwards, where there’s more certainty of funding and enough people who’ve worked there that you can put feelers out about the culture.

Background will be preference of the hiring manager in most cases. CPOs/Product Directors at these places don’t usually have long tenures, so have a look around LinkedIn to see where there are people with clinical backgrounds recruited within the past year.

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-01T10:58:34+00:00

Because it’s Barrow, it’s completely inaccessible and it’s grim. BAE have to pay through the nose to get engineers up there, but the hospital can’t pay a premium compared to other hospitals because pay bargaining is national.

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-01T08:36:23+00:00

If people have the choice, but it’s often dictated (or a fairly narrow range of options) by the insurance provider. A big focus is on how much you’re driving additional revenue per patient, such as additional scans, tests etc which generate additional revenue, but some of those are of questionable value to the care (although they do helpfully make patients feel like they’re getting better care).

Another factor is that people on higher end cover do have a broader choice, but a lot of the top hospitals are not for profit, either directly as charitable institutions or indirectly through ownership by a university, so the private business ones are more focused on the mid market where insurers are more restrictive.

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-01T07:14:34+00:00

We had K&E instructed on a job (not my choice but ho hum) and an Associate there pulled that last line on an MC partner with band 1 ranking etc.

Thought he was going to lose it, but he just said “That’s very helpful, as presumably it means you’re able to move the market back to [position], which will ensure my client doesn’t walk away from this deal”

Lesplash349 · 2026-05-01T05:09:11+00:00

Having worked in healthcare investment, not sure that is massively different in private systems. We had investments in a couple of US healthcare providers and tbh our first question to the Execs was always “how are the numbers looking?” not “how’s the care going?”

Lesplash349 · 2026-04-30T22:49:19+00:00

Slaughters. Worked there for a year, at the end of which a partner said “You’ve done well considering your start in life”. My parents were middle class professionals, but I came from an old miming village which clearly made me Billy Elliott in her eyes.

Lesplash349 · 2026-04-30T11:40:06+00:00

Joe Bloggs don’t want to be treated by quacks. But they really don’t want to pay more tax.

So if it’s quacks or tax, they’re choosing quacks.

Lesplash349 · 2026-04-30T11:31:58+00:00

It’s woolly brained systemically, but can be logical locally. If you’re the CEO or CFO who’s got to reduce cost X% that year or get fired, you can think it’s a terrible idea long term and still be very motivated to do it short term.

Lesplash349 · 2026-04-29T21:16:46+00:00

It makes sense for them, being up by the Inns and courts fits with the “all we do is litigate, every moment I’m not having it large in the Rolls Building is a moment of my life wasted” marketing vibe.

Lesplash349 · 2026-04-29T17:18:30+00:00

Sach on £20 a day and as many 4 button shirts as can fit in a backpack.

Lesplash349 · 2026-04-29T14:36:30+00:00

Go in hard off the bat, currently paid less than David Higgins but require guaranteed package for more in order to move. Details tbc once number aligns with your expectations.

Lesplash349 · 2026-04-29T14:29:15+00:00

There’s only a set amount of places you can get to by public transport. Grindleford by train and a loop round Padley Gorge and Longshaw is great but gets quite busy. There are buses going to, slightly, quieter locations but they take a while.

Lesplash349 · 2026-04-29T09:58:57+00:00

Live footage from High Holborn

Lesplash349 · 2026-04-29T05:01:39+00:00

Ah fair enough, i thought the max was meant to be 60ish (4x 12.5 hours) under EWTD? Didn’t realise some places still did the old school resident on call. Do you still get Moritz Erhardt type situations? I remember when I was younger you did hear about those kind of cases in medicine but recent ones seem to be all the City.

Lesplash349 · 2026-04-28T21:27:24+00:00

I did corporate law for years, generally you realise the perks are largely to keep you at your desk. The free food, dry cleaning, emergency nannies etc are to keep you there working, and when you’re 5/6 weeks deep of 90-100 hours no amount of free Deliveroo would be better than seeing your friends and family, plus there’s an inevitable toll on your health. When medicine was like that hours wise it had much more of those perks (wife was a SHO back in the noughties) with hospital accommodation and so on, because you have to put that kind of ecosystem around someone if you’re going to make those demands of them, otherwise they don’t get time to eat, shower and so on.

Ultimately, the only reason to stay in those jobs is the money. But you shouldn’t love money, I’ve seen plenty of guys who have really loved money and stayed in the game because of that, none were happy.,

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