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Let your next career move come to you.

Do you know any people who got booted

from a law firm during the downturn and couldn't get a job practicing law after that? What did they do instead?

I hired someone and we let him go mid crisis. He seemed to be having an existentialist crisis.  He had ceased to be a good lawyer if he ever was one.  He was getting divorced from his wife. He was relieved to be leaving a job he found very difficult.  He went into property. He then went into recruitment. He did that for a few years and then went into some weird very specific consultancy where he knows jack all about the subject they consult on. No doubt soon and estate agent, then the slow decline to male prostitution, escape drugs and self-esteem-sapping comfort sex.

Expenses[edit]

In 2009, Taylor was not accused of any wrongdoing in the expenses scandal that called on MPs to make reimbursements, apologise or resign. Outside of the relatively narrow ring set of commuting time, which has since been changed he claimed the maximum allowed for a second home allowance for a London home for the four years between 2003 and 2008 - his main residence was near Guildford. All such information became public in 2005.

Mr Taylor became embroiled in the expenses controversy when the Daily Telegraph revealed he had a second home in London even though his main home is in the capital's commuter belt.

In his resignation letter, the MP defended his decision not to live in Esher and Walton.

'It is clear ... that many constituents have little concept of what an MP does or where his attention should be focused,' he wrote.

'There has been some criticism of me recently for my failure to 'commute' rather than on the substance of whether I hold views and or take actions on key matters on behalf of constituents.

'This debases the whole system. It implies that an MP should seek to be around locally more than around Westminster.

'That is not the correct balance and it is not one I wish to endorse.'

We all know the 'grand MP' types like Taylor who are better than their constituents:

In the letter, which was also sent to David Cameron and Patrick McLoughlin, chief whip of the Conservative Party, Mr Taylor said there were 'several factors' behind his decision.

Mr Taylor, 64, also highlighted a shift in public attitudes towards MPs as a reason for his decision

I struggle to understand the point you're so engorged by.  He was not prosecuted, nor was forced out.  More interesting, he was one of a handful of tory MPs who voted against the Iraq war.

I'm fairly certain one of the Hanners sockpuppets (not you Nonny - the other one) is the one who's fully triggered.  Feeling the need to trumpet a non-charge for expenses more than a decade ago to deflect that Raab's predecessor has told constituents not to vote for him?  Sad, really.

A m8 of a m8 got shitcanned and became a lone wolf chinny. Tried to sort me out with a couple of woefully inappropriate roles, you could smell the desperation. Apparantly it took 2 years for him to make his first placement but is actually doing quite well now.

I got booted and went back to uni and did a masters before spending a while in a team in a big four consultancy doing something property related.  Didn’t get back into law until 2013 and it was a fight getting a job when up against younger people with more recent experience.

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