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Title: Career change
Post by: Sloper on November 25, 2014, 07:33:41 pm
Right, I'm seriously fed up of dealing with clients, courts and other lawyers.

I know at nearer to 50 than 40 this is not without risks and I'm seriously considering looking to joining the Church, does anyone have any tips (other than believing in god obviously)?
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: tomtom on November 25, 2014, 07:35:15 pm
pro Trolling? ;)
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: tomtom on November 25, 2014, 07:35:33 pm
Gosh was I being postmodern?
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: Oldmanmatt on November 25, 2014, 07:47:53 pm

Right, I'm seriously fed up of dealing with clients, courts and other lawyers.

I know at nearer to 50 than 40 this is not without risks and I'm seriously considering looking to joining the Church, does anyone have any tips (other than believing in god obviously)?

Seriously, having professed the law to almost 50, are you suggesting you have not accrued sufficient loot to just put your feet up?
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: Sloper on November 25, 2014, 07:53:08 pm
pro Trolling? ;)

It doesn't pay like it used to (although I did the BNP one for free).
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: Sloper on November 25, 2014, 07:56:18 pm

Right, I'm seriously fed up of dealing with clients, courts and other lawyers.

I know at nearer to 50 than 40 this is not without risks and I'm seriously considering looking to joining the Church, does anyone have any tips (other than believing in god obviously)?

Seriously, having professed the law to almost 50, are you suggesting you have not accrued sufficient loot to just put your feet up?

God no, I was a late starter and law is not massively well paid any more.

Besides, being a vicar would allow me to do some good and atone for the sins of my past.
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: SA Chris on November 25, 2014, 08:22:04 pm
Right, I'm seriously fed up of dealing with clients, courts and other lawyers.

I know at nearer to 50 than 40 this is not without risks and I'm seriously considering looking to joining the Church, does anyone have any tips (other than believing in god obviously)?

I think forming your own church can earn you a lot more. Seventh Day Sloperism?

Here's a few commandments

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours foie gras

Thou shalt not topropeth

Honour thy website Administrator
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: petejh on November 25, 2014, 08:27:27 pm
You like rules don't you - law of the land, word of god etc..

You could merge one with the other by practicing law for the church
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: butters on November 25, 2014, 08:49:54 pm

God no, I was a late starter and law is not massively well paid any more.

Besides, being a vicar would allow me to do some good and atone for the sins of my past.

You are going to have to make some serious changes to your diet if you are going to live that long...  ;)
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: duncan on November 25, 2014, 09:12:03 pm
... law is not massively well paid any more

Neither is The Church. However the fringe benefits are (all together now) out of this world.
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: shark on November 25, 2014, 09:58:10 pm
Honour thy website Administrator

Amen to that
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: tomtom on November 25, 2014, 10:41:42 pm

Hold incriminating photographs of thy website Administrator

Amen to that
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: Joepicalli on November 26, 2014, 09:12:19 am
Slopes, if you're seriously thinking about it (i.e. its not some Sloper based precursor to a mega-troll). I could talk to some of the clerics I know at Lincoln Cathedral about late entry to the clergy, and pass on your details. I assume it is High-Church C.of E. you are interested in (though I bet you'd be a marvellous hellfire and brimstone Dissenter type).     
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: lagerstarfish on November 26, 2014, 09:45:56 am
how about becoming a social worker?

I'd be up for making a documentary of your progress through the training - the reaction of other social work students could make excellent TV
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: petejh on November 26, 2014, 11:10:12 am
Daily mail journalist... you could be the new Littlejohn.
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: rich d on November 26, 2014, 11:13:25 am
How about a climbing coach, I've heard you can earn a pound an hour
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: tomtom on November 26, 2014, 11:14:02 am
How about a climbing coach, I've heard you can earn a pound an hour

two if based in London...
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: Oldmanmatt on November 26, 2014, 11:58:05 am

how about becoming a social worker?

I'd be up for making a documentary of your progress through the training - the reaction of other social work students could make excellent TV
This is possibly not as daft as it sounds.

Child advocacy is a difficult and rewarding avenue, that lends it's self to the contentiously minded. It quickly destroys those with idealistic or an egalitarian bent. The ability to call a spade a shovel, as required and to be able to tell your client that he/she/it is a little twat; will be highly beneficial.

Both my Father (ex copper) and his sister (Ex social worker) have pursued this line. Quite well remunerated, not on par with the legal profession, but not bad.

Far better than leading the mass delusion of the credulous (ardent atheist's view).
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: Sloper on November 27, 2014, 08:19:43 pm
Apologies due.  Too many drinks with a man of the cloth (bloody good company actually) talking about some of the funereal speeches I've written lead me to this nonsense.

On sober reflection (yes both happen from time to time and coincide on at least a lunar frequency) it was a bloody daft flight of fantasy, but it did keep the beer flowing :pissed: at the time.  I wonder if he could put it on expenses, or whether he was actually trying to  :lets_do_it_wild: me, my gaydar being less than fully functional at the best of times.

Anyway, it's a bit short notice but I may run for Parliament in 2015 for Labour. (and yes that is a troll)
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: tomtom on November 27, 2014, 10:22:55 pm
If you'd said UKIP is have thought you were trolling ;)
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: Sloper on December 02, 2014, 05:30:16 pm
Well I've thoroughly enjoyed today,

I've told a client to fuck off.
I've told a firm of scum in Liverpool to issue proceedings against us or fuck off.
I've drafted a good defence to a nutter who issued proceedings agains us, for mutatis mutandis, being cvnts and told him to fuck off.

Happy days.
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: petejh on December 02, 2014, 06:18:30 pm
Why is it OK to spell fuck correctly but not cvnt? Or am I being a pvick?
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: Moo on December 02, 2014, 07:43:25 pm
well observed
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: Percy B on December 02, 2014, 07:57:14 pm
Cvnt is the latin version, obviously....
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: Jaspersharpe on December 02, 2014, 08:09:57 pm
Is a cvnt a cunt who works in HR?
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: webbo on December 02, 2014, 08:39:13 pm
Is a cvnt a cunt who works in HR?
No that's a bastard.
Title: Re: Career change
Post by: Sloper on December 02, 2014, 09:28:19 pm
I just think cvnt has a visual reference that the more usual spelling lacks.

Title: Re: Career change
Post by: tomtom on December 02, 2014, 10:28:33 pm
Like uagina?
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