“I am in the first year of my training contract at a smallish City firm where I completed a vacation scheme and loved it so much I decided to turn down two offers from magic circle firms. I still have no idea yet whether I made the right choice or not.
“While I’m not having the fun I had on my vacation scheme (I should have seen that coming really), I am learning a lot and enjoying being a trainee here, but I do often wonder if I have made life more difficult for myself, particularly as I hear about the salaries my LPC friends who made it into magic circle and US firms will be on when they qualify!
