OLPAS is here once again, or more correctly: The Pupillage Portal has opened!

Sounds a lot more exciting but is in fact the same painful process of form filling...

I had managed to get another interview with the Chambers who shortlisted me last Autumn, however I was pipped by a cohort of clearly better applicants after only the first round. This is very frustrating to say the least, and leaves me waiting on two more Chambers to even offer an interview and another to see if I have a second round place.

My thoughts have therefore turned again to the possibility of a life outside the legal world. My penchant for titbits of knowledge on almost any topic would suggest a career in a literary capacity such as editing, although I understand that it is about as hard as getting pupillage. The clergy is another area of interest, which would also indulge my enjoyment of language and study for the sake of knowledge alone. Finally, and frankly least likely, the Army offers a number of opportunities albeit alongside the risk of injury and in extremis - death.

If neither the general malaise of OLPAS rejections nor swine flu carry me off I hope to post a follow up explaining the outcome of this year's Great Pupillage Grab.