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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris Brown" data-source="post: 214400" data-attributes="member: 35674">I’m going to give my two cents on this topic as someone who’s experienced both sides of the spectrum in the same cycle. I received 17 PFOs this cycle, which undoubtedly made me begin to question my ability to succeed. Applications were incredibly competitive and tough. 🫤 However, instead of focusing on the negatives associated with corporate law (I’m sure there’s many), I spent time thinking about the positive sides to the career and my motivations. Having secured 5 VS’, 3 DTC ACs and 4 TC offers from these, I recognise both sides have truths. 😅 I think two things can be true at once. A career in corporate law or certainly any profession (be it medicine, dentistry, investment banking, etc) can be someone’s dream. It’s equally possible for someone to aspire to travel the world, enjoy their life and still have career ambitions. I think oversimplifying a career in corporate law to merely ‘sitting at a desk until 3-4am’ or ‘life sat in front of a laptop’ is unfair. There’s more to the career than just that. If it was just that, I doubt any of us would be here using platforms like TCLA at all in the first place. 🥲 Platforms like TCLA exist to help people break into corporate law. There must be some perks to the career that causes thousands of people to apply to city law firms yearly. I wouldn’t say people are lying to themselves into believing a career in corporate law is their dream. 🙂 For some, it’s a stepping stone to their dreams. Some of us don’t have the luxury to ‘travel the world’ or ‘move countries’, especially those who come from working class  backgrounds. A corporate law career is what determines dreams for some people and that’s okay. 🙂 People can also chase more than one dream at a time or in their lifetime. It’s certainly possible to attain a city law career AND travel around the world. It doesn’t have to be either or, it can be both. There is more to life than just a career in corporate law, so why not aspire for it all. I definitely agree that sometimes we think that we really want something only to realise that it isn’t what we envisioned it to be once we get it in the end. However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t still want that thing. It might end up being exactly what we wanted from the start. 👍🏽 Ultimately, it’s important to remember we’re all on our own individual journeys. The people we see securing VS and TCs in their 2nd year also faced their fair share of rejections. We only see people’s success and not the journey they took to achieve that success. 🥲 To anybody who aspires to pursue a corporate law career, please remember rejection is never equivalent to being a failure or not being good enough. Rejection is always redirection. Please be kind to yourselves. The resilience it takes to go through applications is immense. 😀</blockquote>

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