<b>Apparently we are about to get a wave of lawyers training to be plumbers because the money&amp;’s better. Well at least there won&amp;’t be a problem housing the new workforce - the leafy suburbs of London will do fine</b><br><b>Itend not to see much of the early evening news on TV these days, largely because of a perverse &amp;“maximum disruption&amp;” road maintenance policy adopted by the local highways authority that usually keeps me out until after Emily Bishop has put in her first appearance of the evening. In fact, since the general approach to current affairs reportage on TV has been dumbed-down to its current, sub-John Craven&amp;’s Newsround level of comment and analysis, I am more and more inclined to rely on the morning papers for a review of the previous day&amp;’s events.</b><br> Nevertheless, the other day, I caught a supposedly light-hearted &amp;“And finally....&amp;” story which told the tale of a law graduate who had decided to forsake his fledgling legal career to become a plumber. Essentially, for reasons of personal financial security, he had decided to re-train as a sort of Rumpole of the wash hand basin.<p></p><p> Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this particular career change went unreported - …