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The trauma of realising you're in the wrong game can be asuaged by clear thinking. By Rachel Brushfield
Do you love your career? If you do, great. If not, you're not alone. Many people are looking for more meaning and fulfilment from their work. Today there is much more choice and scope available to young lawyers than for previous generations, and if they are not happy they will vote with their feet. It is estimated that today's school-leavers will need to reinvent their careers at least seven times in their lives, whereas previous generations may have had a guaranteed job or career for life.
Many people fall into their career almost by chance. They may take the first seat offered to them or be following in the footsteps of their lawyer parents or going for law because a careers adviser at school suggested it when they were 18....