My Experiences and Advice

‘What do you want to be when you grow up, little girl?’ asked the man. ‘A ballerina? A nurse? Maybe a hairdresser?’ ‘I want to be a legal clerk.’ That wasn’t quite how the conversation went when I was young and I doubt the words ‘I want to be a legal clerk’ have ever been uttered by anyone in any household in the entire history of time. However, I did want to be a barrister because I liked their black gowns and the pink string they used to tie up their bundles. Eventually I discovered that you could get to handle pink string by working in a solicitor’s office; you don’t ...