Benefits trap mum on £70k a year says she can't afford to work

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I would be surprised if anything like half of people who read law end up getting a training contract or pupillage, let alone make a career out of it. There are hordes of people with law degrees - it is one of the subjects with the greatest oversupply of graduates.

Even those who go on to the next stage outnumber the places available for them vastly. Or used to.

lostinrates

CLAPTON wrote: »

Talking to a partner in a well known commercial law firm, he told me that most of the new graduate were anything except Law;
they particularly liked Engineering and Science graduates as they felt they would have more empathy with the clients' business.

Different types firms have different likes. E.g, the highest paying us or international law firms in the City prefer law grads generally it was said a few years ago. ( fwiw, certainly not a hard and fast rule, dh is not a law grad). They also recruit quite broadly internationally for people wanting the England and Wales qualification in some of those types of firm.

SteveV2

OMG!

She also has a 42 inch TV!

:rotfl:

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

If I was in her position I'd encourage my kids to crack on with a masters degree at a minimum so they can enter the workplace ahead of their peers. If the Mum sorts out her CA then she'll be on a pretty tidy sum pretty soon.

If she was on £120kpa nearly 20 years ago in her very early 30s then she must have been one of the highest fliers in the accountancy profession. Even equity partners of big four (or precursor) firms would have struggled to bring that much in and she would have only been 31. Her tales of her heyday living in a £1.6 million house seem unlikely given that the ex pays only a tenner a week or something.


The whole thing just sounds made up really. If this was all true why would you cooperate with the journalist and make comments likely to bring down the wrath of your neighbours and friends on you. You would no comment it all away or flatly deny it - not revel in it. Seems most unlikely there is a shred of truth in any of this nonsense.

neverdespairgirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I would be surprised if anything like half of people who read law end up getting a training contract or pupillage, let alone make a career out of it. There are hordes of people with law degrees - it is one of the subjects with the greatest oversupply of graduates.

It's often seen as a good general degree to enter various types of graduate employment, though, other than law itself.

neverdespairgirl

CLAPTON wrote: »

Talking to a partner in a well known commercial law firm, he told me that most of the new graduate were anything except Law;
they particularly liked Engineering and Science graduates as they felt they would have more empathy with the clients' business.

That is likely to be the exception, rather than the rule.

Most law firms, and Chambers, tend to prefer their recruits to have done law.

Generali

chewmylegoff wrote: »

If she was on £120kpa nearly 20 years ago in her very early 30s then she must have been one of the highest fliers in the accountancy profession. Even equity partners of big four (or precursor) firms would have struggled to bring that much in and she would have only been 31. Her tales of her heyday living in a £1.6 million house seem unlikely given that the ex pays only a tenner a week or something.


The whole thing just sounds made up really. If this was all true why would you cooperate with the journalist and make comments likely to bring down the wrath of your neighbours and friends on you. You would no comment it all away or flatly deny it - not revel in it. Seems most unlikely there is a shred of truth in any of this nonsense.

Fair points all. She's probably an escort or a drug dealer trying to justify her lifestyle!

ILW

SteveV2 wrote: »

OMG!

She also has a 42 inch TV!

:rotfl:

it's the law for benefit claimants.

vivatifosi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

The whole thing just sounds made up really. If this was all true why would you cooperate with the journalist and make comments likely to bring down the wrath of your neighbours and friends on you. You would no comment it all away or flatly deny it - not revel in it. Seems most unlikely there is a shred of truth in any of this nonsense.

That's exactly what I though to start with, however the one thing I can't get my head round is why this is in two different newspapers from two different publishing groups. If it was only in the Mail, well they have form in the made up benefits story area. It's just strange that it was picked up by two, not that I'm singling out the Sun (the other paper) as an example of great journalism.

Incidentally I checked the websites for both the Herts Advertiser and the St Albans and Harpenden Review (the two local papers for this area) yesterday, and neither had a mention of her on their websites.

N1AK

grizzly1911 wrote: »

When a country is bankrupt where would our resources be best spent. On foottball coaches, golf management and media studies or bio chemistry, engineering and medicine?

I went to Loughborough so know plenty of sports studies grads who are doing very well in careers working with sporting clubs or elsewhere.

My partner went to Cambridge where she knew a number of medical students who were already very well off as a group (even accounting for uni) and planning what they would do with their massive incomes.

There's no way I'd suggest subsidising medicine in that case. If we as a country have a shortage of engineers then encourage the firms that want to employ them to put them through university and give them some tax rebates or whatever in return. That way if a company decides that it wants to sponsor 100 golf course management courses (because there is demand) then it could; in other words the subsidy would go to the courses that businesses desire rather than some arbitrary guess of what is needed that even if it was correct would be out of date quickly.