How a 31 year old solicitor spends his £82k salary

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/31-year-old-solicitor-earning-82000-how-i-spend-money/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

He must have buggered around for a few years after Uni if he’s only recently qualified and already 31.

£82k sounds pretty modest for London salaries for a 1-2 year.

This sounds like about the 3rd such lawyer-spend profile is a couple of weeks.

Paywall?

Why don't they do 'bus drivers on £28k with families to support and mortgages to pay? Much more interesting.

Sounds like a pretty standard public school privileged man

'i won't pay IHT' means he doesn't want poor people to take some of this dad's unearned wealth

He needs a healthy dose of realism. Perhaps a few weeks in the north

Chez vous in the North Weald?

He's been a paralegal at somewhere like Trowers for ages. Classic Tim Nice But Dim with all that BOMAD can get him, but is literally a drain on the estate. Even Dubai firms wouldn't touch him with yours.

As 3-Ducks points out, maybe get some of the people Lee Whasisname seems to think are pissing their money up the wall.

Paywall ffs

Just press escape when it loads.

But long and short of it is the guy's a tool.

What bananaman said. What a gargantuan throbber. Depressing to realise there are people like him in their 30s. Rather puts paid to the forlorn hope that politics might improve a smidge in the decades to come. Let's hope he sticks to his plan to scoot off elsewhere. He won't though.

paywalled

also who gives a tug?

I qualified at 29 tbf; who wants to spend their 20s doing tedious legal shite when you could be boozing and shagging?

You could do all three once upon a time.

Qualified in 2020 so 28 years old. Non law degree, conversion course, LPC with maybe a couple of gap tabs plus TC. Seems fairly young. Youngest you can qualify is 24- with law degree, LPC and tc.

Comes across as a bit of weapon but gets kudos for the rescue cat!

The fvcking guy eats two cheesestrings before breakfast.

Wrong un.

cookster m8 if you are holding down a job you aren’t doing the boozing/shagging properly

Paywall. But from the first two paragraphs: parents paid for private school, paid for uni and bought him a flat. They must be wondering what they wasted the money for.

You just know he racked up at least 3 gap yahs

more to the point what law firm matches their employees' 5% pension contribs at 11%? seems v generous by law firm standards.

I also purchased frozen spinach for the airfryer

There's a fooking wrong'un if ever there was one.

I have only this year finished my bean counter qualifications (as in exams plus the full required signed off 3 years of experience , although if I was more organised I had the experience and exams to do it in early 2022). Am 39.

And earn barely half this . Why do you paper shufflers earn so much

I have been working as a solicitor at a leading City law firm since graduating from university nearly a decade ago.

On £82k? No you don't and no you haven't.

more to the point what law firm matches their employees' 5% pension contribs at 11%? seems v generous by law firm standards.

It's actually fairly common among entirely fictitious employers of people who don't actually exist.

Gaga, you seem underpaid.

Our part qualified financial analysts are mid 50's and more senior bods 60's to 80's.

Fooked around with airplane mode to read it on my phone and what a boring load of twaddle. Young man earning decent but not stellar and totally normal for London salary eats non-extravagant food.
can we have one where a carpet fitter on £54k spunks it all on hookers.

Torygraph really is the lowest of the low when it comes to infotainment

Gaga what do Chad and Stacey get paid at your shop?

Oh dear, please just kill me.

Anyone who "particularly enjoys saving and investing", together with the protein porridge and Tesco meals, gives me the shivers.

FFS live a little, dude.

Can you imagine sending your sprog to private school only for him to end up shopping in Tesco, travelling by bus and living in Tooting in his 30s?

*shudders*

fecking cyclist.

Heh @ protein porridge

Wierd you should ask Tommy

Stacey who I was training up to replace me actually left the other week but she revealed to me at her leaving drinks she was getting paid 15kpa more to do the same job

And leaving to get paid 15k more still in another

The company do pay higher wages and dole out better treatment to their favourite new hire Chad and Stacey's than to the incel acquired staff following the takeover of the company last year I believe

I should probably be on about 10kpa more than I am (certainly for a role in central London as the one now is. Maybe more like 5k if it was out here in the sticks). Of course I am looking for a new role now but I will be up against career chad (although less so outside London ).