In my previous job as a research fellow, I spent a large part of my time exploring interesting issues, and was then paid to tell people what I had found out - a wonderful career, and I am regularly asked why I left it. The reason is that there is a job satisfaction to legal practice which is difficult to find elsewhere. Many trainee solicitors feel this way. Of course, the hours can be long, the pace unbelievable, and it is often difficult to avoid taking work home. With luck, however, the adrenaline should be enough to carry one through.
Many trainees love their job and stay in it for life.
The TSG represents all trainee solicitors in England and Wales, together with all current LPC and CPE students, so it has an enormous membership of around 27,000. This is headed by an executive committee of eight, and a national committee of 55 representatives from local and affiliated groups, as well as PC providers. We communicate with our members via a series of roadshows, skills days, two annual conferences and other programmes designed to provide information about careers as solicitors. We also publish The Trainee magazine, which sets out further information and contains news and views on training issues and the profession, and we have a Web site. Not all of the news we publish is good news.