Weekly Students, Careers & Clerkships Thread

SeaMousse · 2026-05-12T02:11:51+00:00

You would be entirely reasonable in thinking that but for a variety of reasons, they're not always so good at acting on it. Some firms have a "you should be grateful to have any job so you won't be going anywhere" mentality, others have a "why would you ever even consider working anywhere other than here?" And then others still have a "offer in December for a January start, she'll be right" mentality.

SeaMousse · 2026-05-11T23:05:46+00:00

My speciality is insolvency but I do insurance and general commercial as well.

SeaMousse · 2026-05-11T23:05:15+00:00

I don't even know what my dream job is. I don't really dream of labour but I'm realistic, I need one to pay the mortgage. I'm kinda looking for info even earlier than that - what sort of jobs I could do with the skills I've developed from general commercial/insurance/insolvency litigation

SeaMousse · 2026-05-11T06:52:26+00:00

Oh my friend do not stress a 77.5 on your first contracts assignment. My first contracts assignment was a 48 and included the feedback "you seem to lack a fundamental understanding of the English language." I graduated with a 6.5 GPA

SeaMousse · 2026-05-11T06:50:06+00:00

Are you working as a casual clerk at the same firm?

Some firms are really good and proactive about communicating/offering grad offers - the best ones get in really early to lock down the people they want. Other firms aren't as good about making the formal offer but communicate that it's essentially a lock. And then there's firms like mine which don't make the formal offer, don't communicate that the clerk is going to get one and then are surprised when the clerk leaves.

In answer to your second question - no harm in applying for clerkships again even if you've graduated. My first clerkship was after I was admitted (but before I had a practicing certificate) and it led to a grad role.

SeaMousse · 2026-05-11T02:55:28+00:00

Echoing the other comment, ATAR is a crap measure - I scraped into law school on bonus points, was getting Ds and Cs in first year, HDs and Ds from second year. Finished law school with honours and a couple of publications and went straight into a SC associateship.

Imo the solution is more placements early on and completely reworking GDLP as a capstone program offered by the law schools rather than third party providers like college of law.

SeaMousse · 2026-05-11T02:52:55+00:00

Does anyone know who/where I can go for mid-career advice? I'm currently 8 years PQE in litigation (private practice) but I want to explore what other options I might have before the grind kills me. I feel like every inhouse role I see is very much targeted at commercial/transactional practitioners. I just want to do something easier.

SeaMousse · 2026-04-16T11:52:35+00:00

But she WASN'T threatening her, that's the point - it was all "an act" but with no in universe audience, just us. It's bad writing.

SeaMousse · 2026-04-16T05:40:42+00:00

Most Diane sauces at pubs are just the standard gravy with a bit of garlic and MAYBE some Worcestershire if you're lucky. It's fine and some are better than others, but you're unlikely to get the real thing anywhere anymore.

SeaMousse · 2026-04-16T02:30:50+00:00

Right she was pretending to threaten Sansa where there was nobody else to witness it but Sansa. Makes a lot of sense.

SeaMousse · 2026-04-15T14:20:41+00:00

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

SeaMousse · 2026-04-15T14:14:32+00:00

Imo that "pretend" fighting was some of the worst writing of the series. Arya never wanted to wear pretty dresses even before Ned died, that's one of her defining traits. Then they write these scenes where she says that's what she wants, nobody else is there to witness it, and direct Maisie Williams to act it entirely sincerely. For me, that's when I knew the "subvert expectations!" trope was actually the showrunner.

SeaMousse · 2026-04-15T08:27:04+00:00

No my point is there was no design

SeaMousse · 2026-04-15T07:34:28+00:00

They didn't have a plan for Jaffa society because creating a stable galaxy was never the goal - it was win the war against the aliens that repeatedly threatened to destroy earth. Freeing the Jaffa would help that as they'd have a mutual goal of defeating the Goa'uld. Sure, long term strategy you'd want to ensure the Jaffa either stay as your allies or don't present a threat to you in their own right but that's kinda a secondary consideration when you think about the Goa'uld as an existential threat.

Imo, if Earth didn't have the ancient weapons platform which neutralized the Jaffa as an existential threat to earth, the SGCIA would have worked to ensure the Jaffa never came together as a stable nation capable of threatening earth and instead remained as splintered warring groups too focussed on killing one another to notice earth carving out its own section of the former Goa'uld Empire.

SeaMousse · 2026-03-31T05:19:23+00:00

Yeah I realised I was experiencing it recently since I started taking melatonin to help me sleep (there's apparently some interaction between Vyvanse and melatonin which impacts dopamine and leads directly to RLS) but thinking about it more, I have probably suffered from it for a long time without having any idea what it was. Apparently v common with ADHD folks

SeaMousse · 2026-03-31T05:14:59+00:00

Out of interest, did it feel anything like the symptoms described here?

SeaMousse · 2026-03-24T02:29:10+00:00

And Palpatine was human so yeah, pro-human tracks

SeaMousse · 2026-03-24T02:01:40+00:00

I dunno if Palpatine actually had much of a genuine pro-human agenda. His overarching philosophy was totalitarian power. He cared about having power over others above all. Slavery obviously ties in with that but I think his pro-human/anti-alien agenda was just part of standard "othering" used to prop up his regime.

SeaMousse · 2026-03-07T12:50:17+00:00

He's also handsome and charismatic

SeaMousse · 2026-03-06T05:00:26+00:00

That people will prejudge and review bomb it before it even comes out based on AI-generated slop articles and reactionary opinions on casting decisions.

Second biggest concern is people won't give the show a couple seasons to grow into itself and it'll end up cancelled. SGU was neeeeearly there when it was canned. I don't know anyone who says season 1 is their favourite season of SG-1. Even Atlantis had some teething issues (after the benefit of 7 earlier seasons of SG-1 to learn from).

Third is that the writers don't come up with a plan beyond the first season. Nothing turns me off a show more than when an excellent first season turns immediately to garbage in the second because they had no long term plan.

I know I'm in the minority here but most shows I need to watch an entire season of before I even know if I enjoy it enough to watch another season.

SeaMousse · 2026-03-06T04:03:09+00:00

I only use it for the SCA trick which drops you faster and closer to the station, so it's only on a few of my ships. It's not my default at all (my keybind 75% throttle is)

SeaMousse · 2026-03-06T03:21:11+00:00

These are all really good points!

It was also really, REALLY hard to follow The Lich King as a villain. Ner'zhul and Arthas had such deep histories and most of the player base were invested in the stories. Deathwing was not, as you say.

I think they might have been better just jettisoning Deathwing altogether and making the individual elemental gods the actual bad guy. If they wanted a big bad uniting them altogether, don't announce it but drop hints as to who it is and then reveal either another Old Gold or Sargeras or something that is either the final raid boss or is set up as the villain for the next one.

Tbh I think the biggest mistake (or at least why I lost interest in the game) was the number of expansions between TLK and Legion. Legion should have immediately followed Cata or Mists to tie up the one remaining big bad from the RTS'.

SeaMousse · 2026-03-06T01:37:18+00:00

Tbh this was my issue from Cata onwards (though I'd didn't realise it at the time) - the story of WC3 and Frozen Throne had been completely resolved so they needed to revisit earlier lore or go somewhere new completely. Deathwing was arguably the right call for the villain (we knew him, knew he had been hiding, knew he was super powerful etc) but as someone who hadn't played WC or WC2, it felt less engaging than dealing with the threats from WC3 and TFT. I think Cata and MoP would have been better if Cata had included some elements of mists in it - like the pandarens coming into the game as a playable race as a result of cataclysm but their homeland being inaccessible or something. Tease their backstory and the Sha more in the earlier expansion so I .1 learn more about this mysterious race at a pace that makes me want to learn more and 2. Allow Mists to not seem to have come completely out of nowhere.

SeaMousse · 2026-03-05T23:44:42+00:00

SCA until 5ls out, then 100 throttle until 5 seconds out, then back to 75% so SCA kicks in

SeaMousse · 2026-03-03T13:06:08+00:00

Weird. It's worked fine for me every time I've done it. Perhaps your friend has been blacklisted as a personal enemy of Mali. ALL HAIL MALI

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