60 Seconds With Karen Stachura

This article was first published in issue 20 of ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Magazine.

What would you be doing if you weren't in this profession?

What I would like to be doing and what I may have ended up doing may not be the same thing!
After I graduated I was not sure law was for me so I didn't go down the usual path of going straight into my Diploma in Legal Practice (a mandatory postgraduate requirement for those hoping to become a Scottish solicitor). However I soon realised that I was either overqualified or underexperienced, and found myself frustrated in the work I was able to obtain: hotel receptionist, 'coffee person' (aka working in a cybercafé), pharmaceutical administrator (don't ask) and bar tender.