Help - considering reneging on my TC

[jholloway]

Hi!

So I accepted a TC offer last August and started the LPC at the end of August this year. I’m finding the LPC (pretty much every aspect of it) incredibly dull, and it’s causing me to have significant doubts about whether I want to finish the course, do the TC, and become a solicitor.

If the LPC and the TC are substantively similar, then given how dull I’m finding the LPC, I can’t help but feel I’d be wasting my time (and my firm’s) by finishing the LPC and starting the TC, to only then drop out of the TC mid-way through after realising that the TC/practice is just as dull as the LPC.

I’ve always had doubts about being a solicitor, and feel like maybe I got swept up in the whole LLB culture of ‘apply apply apply’ without taking enough time to consider all of my options.

To drop out of the LPC, renege on a TC offer and potentially embark on a career outside of the law is obviously a very significant decision, so I’d really appreciate any advice.

Thanks in advance!

 

[whisperingrock]

Hi!

So I accepted a TC offer last August and started the LPC at the end of August this year. I’m finding the LPC (pretty much every aspect of it) incredibly dull, and it’s causing me to have significant doubts about whether I want to finish the course, do the TC, and become a solicitor.

If the LPC and the TC are substantively similar, then given how dull I’m finding the LPC, I can’t help but feel I’d be wasting my time (and my firm’s) by finishing the LPC and starting the TC, to only then drop out of the TC mid-way through after realising that the TC/practice is just as dull as the LPC.

I’ve always had doubts about being a solicitor, and feel like maybe I got swept up in the whole LLB culture of ‘apply apply apply’ without taking enough time to consider all of my options.

To drop out of the LPC, renege on a TC offer and potentially embark on a career outside of the law is obviously a very significant decision, so I’d really appreciate any advice.

Thanks in advance!

The LPC is a miserable experience and I have yet to meet a single person who enjoys it, including every associate I've spoken to at my firm. Make of that what you will.

 

[Jessica Booker]

Hi!

So I accepted a TC offer last August and started the LPC at the end of August this year. I’m finding the LPC (pretty much every aspect of it) incredibly dull, and it’s causing me to have significant doubts about whether I want to finish the course, do the TC, and become a solicitor.

If the LPC and the TC are substantively similar, then given how dull I’m finding the LPC, I can’t help but feel I’d be wasting my time (and my firm’s) by finishing the LPC and starting the TC, to only then drop out of the TC mid-way through after realising that the TC/practice is just as dull as the LPC.

I’ve always had doubts about being a solicitor, and feel like maybe I got swept up in the whole LLB culture of ‘apply apply apply’ without taking enough time to consider all of my options.

To drop out of the LPC, renege on a TC offer and potentially embark on a career outside of the law is obviously a very significant decision, so I’d really appreciate any advice.

Thanks in advance!

The LPC and TC will be a very different experience. Personally, I wouldn’t make the assumption that the LPC equates to how you will feel about the TC.

However, it ultimately depends on what is really driving the frustration/boredom. I have know people who have dropped out of their TC or taken a different career path at qualification say they knew before starting their TC that it wasn’t for them, but they felt like they had to carry on (mainly because of a concern of not having anything else lined up and/or having to repay for the GDL/LPC).

Your post seems to suggest this isn’t just about the LPC, and if that is the case, then I think it will need careful consideration.