📩 Why chasing a TC won’t make you happy

Hey there

Most people slow down when application season ends.

But if you’re serious about landing a placement, now’s the time to act.

This is the time to prepare — not when deadlines are days away and everyone’s scrambling.

That’s why we’re running two laser-focused sessions with a legal graduate recruiter. Each one is designed to help you work smarter, not harder — and build a strategy that actually gets results.

You won’t hear the same tired advice like “tailor your application” or “show motivation.”

Most people already do that, and still get rejected.

These sessions will show you what actually recruiters want:

👉🏼 How to craft an application that demands attention

👉🏼 Insider strategies to ace the entire recruitment process

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Stress.

Many of us feel it.

It’s the silent soundtrack of modern ambition. The racing thought just as we’re falling asleep. The tension in our shoulders and core as we start writing another application.

It sneaks into our mornings, our deadlines, and even our celebrations.

And often, we don’t talk about it until it boils over.

We tell ourselves it’ll all go away once we arrive.

I’ll be happy when:

🗣️: I’ll get a First-class degree.

🗣️: I’ll get a training contract.

🗣️: I’ll make six figures.

🗣️: I’ll finally qualify.

But research tells a different story:

In 2006, at Harvard University, psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar noticed something strange. His high-achieving students, those destined for the world’s top firms, were unhappy.

They hit goal after goal, but happiness kept moving just out of reach.

He called it the arrival fallacy: the illusion that fulfilment lives on the other side of achievement.

Many of us live this way. Constantly chasing and rarely arriving.

So pause. Zoom out.

Here are two ideas to work with:

1. Let go of what you can’t control.

Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome, faced the plague, war, and personal loss. Yet he remained calm and just. He practiced Stoicism, a philosophy that teaches us to accept what we cannot change and to focus on what is within our control.

2. Seek purpose, not just productivity.

Purpose is your compass. Without it, you’ll drift in a sea of endless tasks. With it, even hard days feel meaningful. Purpose doesn’t have to be grand, it just has to be yours. Some find it through work, while others find it through relationships, hobbies, or spiritual beliefs.

If you take away anything from this email, let it be this:

You don’t have to delay joy until you “make it”. You’re allowed to feel joy and be ambitious. One doesn’t cancel out the other.

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1 June 1946 — Television licences were issued in Britain for the first time; they cost £2. Broadcast receiving licenses, introduced by the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904, became permanent in 1924. The BBC's television services, starting in 1936, were initially covered by these licenses. During WWII, broadcasts were suspended, but upon their return in 1946, separate TV licenses were introduced.

2 June 1949 — The Government of Ireland Act is passed and principally provided for the departure of Ireland from the Commonwealth but it also affirmed Northern Ireland’s status as part of the United Kingdom, subject to any future referendum to the contrary.

3 June 1996 — The High Court awarded compensation to 14 police officers traumatised during the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster.

4 June 1970 — Tonga Act is passed, making the Kingdom of Tonga independent within the British Commonwealth

5 June 2012 — This day was declared a bank Holiday to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee

6 June 1844 — The Factory Act is passed, which is arguably the first health and safety act in Britain.

7 June 1628 — The Petition of Rights was given Royal Assent, setting protections against the state and restricted the king’s non-parliamentary actions. This was a response to the monarch’s abuses.

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