So whose non-law job are you supporting?

This blogger's attention was riveted by a media release from the Law Society for England and Wales, which reads in relevant part:

"Every 100 legal services jobs support 67 more in the wider economy

In his first speech [which you can read in full here] as Law Society deputy vice-president, Robert Bourns told an audience of City lawyers, financial services firms and think-tanks that for every 100 jobs in the legal services sector, 67 are supported in other areas of the economy.
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Robert Bourns also told delegates that:

· Every £1 of output of the UK legal services sector underpins £2.39 of output in the UK economy as a whole.

· Growth in the UK legal services sector is expected to increase to near pre-recession levels in 2015. ..."

Carrying an extra burden:
some folk just grin
and bear it

The SOLO IP blog has 258 email subscribers.  Assuming that just 50 of them are practising IP as solicitors in England and Wales [having made appropriate deductions from the 258 in respect of patent and trade mark attorneys, practitioners from other jurisdictions, IP administrators, students and people who have signed up to read this blog under a misapprehension that it's to with something completely different], this rather suggests that, while they struggle to earn their humble crust and then extract it from their clients, they are actually paying the wages, national insurance contributions and other outgoings for 33.5 others.

Apart from accountants, book-keepers, sellers of replacement printer cartridges and Starbucks baristas, what callings might these fortunate by-products of even solo IP practice have?  Suggestions, anyone?