The magic circle firm is renowned for its sizeable perks, which include an on-site gym and its very own canteen..

ITS VERY OWN CANTEEN?  OMFG - THAT'S THE MECCA OF LAW FIRMS!!!1!!1!!

"The next week she reportedly quit her job, which paid her a yearly salary of £90,000, and using her savings, inheritance and money from family, she bought an old canal boat for £40,000..."

Why work when you can mooch off your parents...?

Girl uses family money to become drop-out.

"his words just struck terror in me. Did I really want to be a lawyer with a flat and a mortgage?”

she has a point.......

What’s the difference between inheritance and family money? Total non story 

I can't fathom leaving uni, doing the GDL, LPC and then surviving a TC just to go live on a narrowboat. I've gone to countless open days and law firm mixers, I was under no illusion that the work would be anything but gruelling.

I've been on a narrowboat before. She could've taken the salary, sold the fancy bags and used her family money to scrape together a deposit for a decent flat in London, irrespective of where her (future) job is. At least then she wouldn't have to shit next to where she eats.

As above, living off your parents is far easier than working.

Good luck to her, sounds a great choice.

and lol at in-house gym and canteen as perks worth hanging around for.

This article is entirely pointless without a picture of her for us to judge whether we still wood.

Heh at Rumpeypumpey. "She could have been a lawyer with a flat and a mortgage"...

Let's revisit that when she is 65, with just state pension (if that), no property, and no other source of incomes. 

Being a "lawyer with a flat and a mortgage" is dull as fvck I agree, and I'd too prefer to live on the narrowboat, but I am no sure that's going to cut it when I am 70. 

Lol at the snide responses here

Wonder if that’s because you live the idea of doing something like that yourself...

but you can’t now, can you? Nagging wife, screaming little Rugrats, mortgage

This 70 year old started out life not being a lawyer with a flat and a mortgage ...

Excellent statistically relevant example. 

She could also win a lottery. 

Well, it's a real life example versus your imaginary scenario of a person 40 years hence, so 1-0 to me

90k at L&G just for falling straight out of a TC with Linklaters and no expertise to speak to but a dab hand at photocopying? WTAF?

Sounds great, fair play to her.

and plus 1 for the ridiculous ‘perks’. I remember when I was applying for TCs and reading crap like ‘perks include a shirt allowance for when you’ve worked all night.’

fook that, I thought. And still do.

For someone who is currently "in-between jobs and also writes a blog" I think access to a canteen is indeed a perk. 

Rumpy I shit next to where I eat but it is one of the three WC’s on the ground floor of my house.

Indeed Sails, quite right. The position of the WC is highly relevant here. Imagine she’d be lucky to have a separate shower/toilet set up vs one of those combo numbers. 

dear god her rump is insane iin that vid

I’d have to see the menu in the canteen before I comment. 

lol at the lawtedes who think that everyone should live a life as boring as they do 

Just another trustafarian basically. Nothing to see here.

I applaud anyone who ditches being a "lawtede" to do something more fulfilling, but this young woman has openly admitted she survives on family money and/or dole (no idea how she would be entitled to benefits unless it's the JSA element, but there we are). 

Shall we applaud anyone who says "fook my boring office job, I shall henceforth be a bum living in a tent around Liverpool St station selling The Big Issue"? 

I've her blog entry criticising capitalism where she is saying she's much happier now and that spending her days effectively doing various chores around her boat takes up all of her time and is more fulfilling. If we could all live off parents and the dole, I am sure that would be an interesting alternative to capitalism, but since we can't, it's not. 

There's no toilet on the boat.  I know Links is bad, but is it really worse than crapping in a bucket?

LOL @ fulfilment being sat in a narrow boat in the Regents Canal. Reference to "pals" and parents "fuming" indicates she's off the tool scale or is a character in the Beano. 

In her blog she says she has spent time as an inpatient in a psychiatric facility. Her decision to quit law in the circumstances appears well justified; her decision to live on a narrowboat - less so. 

In fact she probably sold this story to The Sun to get the £200 or whatever it is they pay now. 

I was a young-at-heart 26-year-old, who fled like a wild thing at the prospect of real commitment. Sprinkle on this a dollop of Type 1 Bipolar, a manic episode,
 

Is 26 a particularly mature age? 
I can’t help thinking that her mental health meant that a career like corporate law was best avoided. 

Orwell and banana, oh dear. I missed the Sun. 

www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/13732300/quit-lawyer-job-live-boat-wee-bucket…

what a lede: CANAL YOU BELIEVE IT? 

I quit high-flying £90k lawyer job to live on a boat – now I wee in a bucket, never shampoo & rarely shower, I love it

Legal cheek really skipped over some of the most incredible parts. I can see why she wants to become a writer because this is straight comedy

“My boyfriend, Toby, 26, who I met a year ago on the dating app Hinge doesn’t mind - he doesn’t think I smell. In fact he doesn’t wash his hair either. He lives on the boat with me but he’s leaving now - he wants to shower more.”

I wonder if RoF’s own Sailslaw should drop her a line.....

£10k inheritance is hardly trustafarian status.  Good for her I think. No point being rich and miserable. Presumably she’ll find a way to make ends meet.

She says staring at a screen for hours a day began to effect her health

I expect better proofing skills from links, tbh. 

The absolute state of the sun website 

I was not surprised to read that this person had not studied law at university.