Work/life/study balance??

[tram]

lol, you know i did work experience at mallesons when i was in year ten.....totally did not get the most out of the experience tho..... it's only now that i realise what a huge wasted opportunity it was.....

HOLY CRAP! How'd you manage that??

lol yea.....i had a faint connection (i know two of his daughters) with a senior solictor and that was how i got in..... yea...i was EXTREMELY lucky

My debating coach who did a clerkship at both AAR and mallesons was like 0.o when he heard and told me that 1) i had just been given an opportinity that most law students would give their right arm for, and 2) if i didn't come away thinking law was boring, the work experience hadn't done it's job

[AzureBlue]

i had just been given an opportinity that most law students would give their right arm for

DITTO!!!!!!!!
What did you do for the week? Must be really exciting doing work experience at Australia's top law firm
Sooooo luckkyyyyyy
Did you try applying for any actuarial work experience?

[ninwa]

i had just been given an opportinity that most law students would give their right arm for

*offers right arm and left leg*

[tram]

i had just been given an opportinity that most law students would give their right arm for

DITTO!!!!!!!!
What did you do for the week? Must be really exciting doing work experience at Australia's top law firm
Sooooo luckkyyyyyy
Did you try applying for any actuarial work experience?

lol.....ummmmm i did few things. The main person i followed around was the senior solicitor for one of their property divisions. He was the person who did the majorty of legal property stuff for woolworths. So i did things like sit in on meetings between him and people from woolsworths. I also did a trip to the deeds office (basically where all the info on every property in vic is held), and looking at the contracts they wrote and looking at how they researched law and other lawy things like that. Again, i totally did not realise the significance of the expereience and didn't get that much out of it ....

And lol, with acturial work experience i was also offered a place for work experience at ernest & young working under their head acturial analyst, but turned that down for the malleson place

i had just been given an opportinity that most law students would give their right arm for

*offers right arm and left leg*

LOL, exactly.....

[tram]

just to clarify....I"M JOKING about the acturial bit....i only started concidering act stud this year

[laynie]

just to clarify....I"M JOKING about the acturial bit....i only started concidering act stud this year

Yeah, don't think you would get a spot at an ACTUARIAL place when you can't even spell it correctly.

[AzureBlue]

just to clarify....I"M JOKING about the acturial bit....i only started concidering act stud this year

Lol ok I was thinking... you've got some amazing contacts! So you didn't apply for any business firms (but then again, why would you after getting an offer from MALLESONS )?
All I got from applying for actuarial places was "you're welcome to apply for a traineeship/cadetship program when you are undergraduate." etc... 

[tram]

just to clarify....I"M JOKING about the acturial bit....i only started concidering act stud this year

Yeah, don't think you would get a spot at an ACTUARIAL place when you can't even spell it correctly.

LOL, fair enough (i'm a really crap speller)

just to clarify....I"M JOKING about the acturial bit....i only started concidering act stud this year

Lol ok I was thinking... you've got some amazing contacts! So you didn't apply for any business firms (but then again, why would you after getting an offer from MALLESONS )?
All I got from applying for actuarial places was "you're welcome to apply for a traineeship/cadetship program when you are undergraduate." etc... 

yea nah, i didn't even bother, tbh, i had kinda left it to the last minute.....i was actually lucky to get any work exprerience place.... :S

[AzureBlue]

yea nah, i didn't even bother, tbh, i had kinda left it to the last minute.....i was actually lucky to get any work exprerience place.... :S

Lol, just realised we have the exact same uni path and almost the same VCE subjects So did you mainly consider law until this year? I had no idea what I was going to do, then last year I found out what actuarial studies was and thought it sounded quite interesting and then this year, I became interested in law (after doing a semester of yr 10 law, going to a legal studies thing etc.,) and got interested in economics after debating with some yr 12s at viewpoint because I had to fill in for someone.

[tram]

yea nah, i didn't even bother, tbh, i had kinda left it to the last minute.....i was actually lucky to get any work exprerience place.... :S

Lol, just realised we have the exact same uni path and almost the same VCE subjects So did you mainly consider law until this year? I had no idea what I was going to do, then last year I found out what actuarial studies was and thought it sounded quite interesting and then this year, I became interested in law (after doing a semester of yr 10 law, going to a legal studies thing etc.,) and got interested in economics after debating with some yr 12s at viewpoint because I had to fill in for someone.

it went
year 10: Law
year 11: NO IDEA
year 12: Act stud, then act stud + Law more recently

[tram]

lol, i find it funny that every thread azure and i start both commenting in inevetably tuns into a discussion of subjects/act stud/law

[AzureBlue]

lol, i find it funny that every thread azure and i start both commenting in inevetably tuns into a discussion of subjects/act stud/law

Yep! For me:
Y9: Commerce/Law vaguely
Early Y10: ACTUARIAL STUDIES!!!
Mid Y10/Now: Actuarial Studies, then Law (most likely focusing in the area of corporate law or banking/finance law but not sure at this point).