Congratulations to everyone who passed this hugely difficult milestone!!

If you’re smart enough to become a lawyer then you’re smart enough to get out of your situation and some hair dye.

Read the other genuine comments and your ratioed comment in hindsight perhaps bro, life is much better not being angry

Some people lose their training contracts if they don’t pass so it’s obvious a big deal.

Have plenty of cash ready to pay for rent, “bro”.

I am very envious that your job gives you a reason to wake up every day. My job gives me IBS and greying hair.

For me, passing both first time was very emotional. I had to change my entire life to take the SQE. I quit my paralegal job because ironically it did not provide me the salary nor time to study and take the SQE. I took a job I like less but double the salary. I made myself homeless so I didn’t have to pay rent and ended up living in between 3 houses.
Passing the SQE now guarantees me a solicitor salary – a salary that is not financially harmful to me. This means I can now finally get married and have children. I’m a woman in her early 30s and I do not have the time to waste. Passing the SQE has opened up my entire life, has given me a quality of life, gave me a roof over my head, and allowed me to have a baby.
Yes, I could have just quit working in law forever for a significantly higher salary, which would have allowed me the other things I want in life much quicker. But I simply love my job in law, that in itself gives me reason to wake up every day, and I wasn’t willing to give up being a solicitor.

I suppose this might be the case for the more mediocre of the cohort.

And for non-sponsored candidates, it’s a massive financial investment as well.

It’s a huge milestone, months of prep and two months waiting time. Plus a huge stress relief. And it means you can go on to do the job you wanted (or not)