Did you have to spend years and years working for free before they started paying you?

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:22, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

No, solicitors get well paid as trainees.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:26, Reply)

Except that frisbee kid of course.
LOLOLOL!
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:28, Reply)

They pay him in gin.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:29, Reply)

nah, i got about £30k
to work 120 hour weeks. it nearly killed me.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:33, Reply)

It wouldn't have done much for the quality of your work either.
Sounds a bit counter-productive to me.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:38, Reply)

agreed
i was a shadow by the end of it. but it's a rite of passage, and trainees working those hours are generally drafting for someone else to check/approve, ie very little actually goes out.

unless it's 5am, you're utterly fucked, and you inadvertently send a confidential document to someone who isn't your supervising colleague by mistake of course...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:39, Reply)

Fucking hell that must have been a barrel of laughs.
There's only 168 hours in a week, which leaves around 6.85 hours per day of free time, including sleep.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 30 May 2013, 22:38, Reply)

i exaggerate
that wasn't every week. but there were some weeks where i hardly went home, and 1 awful week where i worked 48 hours straight, urgh
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:40, Reply)

Urgh indeed.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 30 May 2013, 22:44, Reply)

Even if you work 12-hour shifts, the vast majority of places will give you several consecutive days off in any working "week".
Unless you're a security guard, that is.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:49, Reply)

Most professions don't have shifts though Wooderz.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:54, Reply)

Round these parts, more of them do than don't.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:56, Reply)

That's Bradford though innit

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 30 May 2013, 22:57, Reply)

And Kirklees. And Calderdale. And Wakefield.
And... you get the idea.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 30 May 2013, 23:01, Reply)