The destruction of the Middle Classes commences

marklv

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm ashamed to say I agree. the average standard is lower for both solicitors and barristers in immigration compared to other areas of law,

OTOH, I don't get drunk, hungover and turn up late, and I do read the papers very carefully.

Before I met my wife I went out with a pensions solicitor who worked for a firm in central London. In 2001 she was on £42k + car allowance (£5.5k I guess); I assume she must be on a lot more now.

treliac

carolt wrote: »

- almost as much of a compliment as DD's assertion a couple of days back that treliac was me!

Thanks carolt, I've just found the post you refer to.

He obviously can't understand that more than one person can dislike his vitriol towards others.

neverdespairgirl

marklv wrote: »

Before I met my wife I went out with a pensions solicitor who worked for a firm in central London. In 2001 she was on £42k + car allowance (£5.5k I guess); I assume she must be on a lot more now.

Safe to say, yes.

Harry_Powell

treliac wrote: »

Thanks carolt, I've just found the post you refer to.

He obviously can't understand that more than one person can dislike him.

lol, pathetic. :rotfl::rotfl:

bendix

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Safe to say, yes.

Depends on her grade of course, but - yes - considerably more.

City law firm paygrades are well-publicised. Most firms pay their most junior trainees at around £37-38,000 a year. This rises to £66k or more once they are qualified and then it jumps every year depending on how many years they are qualified.

Most city firm lawyers have hit six figures by the time they are thirty, exclusive of bonuses.

And once they make partner . . well, the sky is the limit.

movilogo

Why crib when developing world offers cheaper labour?

Don't you buy goods from Primark, Aldi, Poundland, ASDA?

Will you pay £5 for something in M&S when the exact same is available for £1 in Poundland??

You can turns things in your favour by lateral thinking.

There is no point in running away from truth.

China/India/etc. will rise rapidly and their economy will be comparable with developed world very soon. Jobs that can be outsourced, will be outsourced.

But you can make it work in your favour.

Invest there and see your money growing much faster than what you can get in UK due to paltry interest rate.

People in this country will spend their savings on National Lottery yet won't spend some time on proper investment planning.

amcluesent

Big homes, nice cars, luxury holidays... what their friends don’t know is that they’re Britain's new MIDDLE CLASS POOR

As I walk down London’s Westbourne Grove, it suddenly hits me. The world looks the same, but my life as it was a decade ago is over.

Around me, well-dressed women are happily chatting in restaurants and cafes, their shopping nestling safely at their elegantly shod feet, next to their designer handbags.

Less than ten years ago, that was me, but today it’s like peering through a window in my past. Like so many middle-class people, I slid into poverty when fees for my work froze or plummeted and the cost of living soared.

I am currently one of thousands of middle-class paupers out there putting on a brave face and pretending nothing has changed when, in fact, beneath the glossy varnish of the facade, our entire way of life is crumbling under the crushing pressure of the credit crunch.

FACT - 10 years from now, that'll be everyone's story. Grim, grey, grinding austerity is the only future, except for the elites.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

It's not a FACT, is it. It's your opinion, based on a lazy Daily Mail article cobbled together with bits from an old internet thread. Really quite a long way from a FACT.

bendix

amcluesent wrote: »

Big homes, nice cars, luxury holidays... what their friends don’t know is that they’re Britain's new MIDDLE CLASS POOR

As I walk down London’s Westbourne Grove, it suddenly hits me. The world looks the same, but my life as it was a decade ago is over.

Around me, well-dressed women are happily chatting in restaurants and cafes, their shopping nestling safely at their elegantly shod feet, next to their designer handbags.

Less than ten years ago, that was me, but today it’s like peering through a window in my past. Like so many middle-class people, I slid into poverty when fees for my work froze or plummeted and the cost of living soared.

I am currently one of thousands of middle-class paupers out there putting on a brave face and pretending nothing has changed when, in fact, beneath the glossy varnish of the facade, our entire way of life is crumbling under the crushing pressure of the credit crunch.

FACT - 10 years from now, that'll be everyone's story. Grim, grey, grinding austerity is the only future, except for the elites.

On the contrary, amclueless. It's not a fact at all. It certainly won't be my story. My net worth is increasing at a very nice pace every month through extensive savings and saving returns. Furthermore my earning potential is increasing annually.

I have been completely unaffected by the credit crunch. In fact, I'll take it further. It's made me richer. I was cashed up before the credit crunch happened, and I put lots of cash into shares etc after it happened, and rode the back of the wave last year. I'm back heavily in cash today.

Just because YOU haven't been able to adapt to the changes of the last decade and find yourself one of the middle class poor today, doesn't mean everyone else is in the same boat.

Of course, it does rather explain your doom-obsessed outlook on life.

By the way, putting FACT in upper case letters doesn't make it any truer. If anything it rather diminishes your posts to the level of hyperbole.

bendix

PS . I live in Westbourne Grove too . . . .