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Old 10-09-2021, 01:39 PM
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Which other industry has a training period that is exploited by firms that make you work for $0? And have bosses that have no problem gloating about it to the media?
Which other industry has such steep pay jumps that is a double aged sword- yes it attracts ppl to get in and endure for the future $$$, but the need for employers to pay such increments plus high burnout rate essentially equates to a hollowing out of mid level and beyond lawyers.
However those that made it to equity partnership in Singapore won’t be incentivised to change the above since. Look they now own the business and such practices even if exploitative, benefits them. Moreover the legal sector is not that large enough to support as high profits in tiny Singapore, so coupled with lack of min wage and labor protections, helps these firms justify the low pay of their juniors.
understand that the 6 mths gg 1 year training period is lowly paid labour for all that work the law students have been through.

do you know that there are small local tech firms (where businesses charge tens of thousands for some sort of a basic website) lowball new developers (those that undergo some sort of traineeships) at 2+k? the work is to code, to plan the website or the app, to debug, to test, to build the database, to design the interface and to maintain afterwards. then they tell u.. "ahha u work for us we give u experience.. and after two years u can go apply and work in bigtech!!! woo~~~"

and this is not training. this is a real job. u think there's no burn out without even the seemingly high increment that u all have? ppl in tech calculate by man-hours. people naturally will question ur suitability and ability if u take too long.

in other industries u dun get the hollowing out because everywhere is the same. stay in one company with gradual progression or u jump ship and amen pray u survive in the new company.

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