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Post by Washington on Sept 28, 2016 17:29:02 GMT
For me, this might affect my future career path I want to do law (I have a passion for it and for History), and I am really interested in it (btw I'm in late secondary and im going to do my last exams and revision within 1 1/2 years) But I have issues - My county does not have a single school that supports law
- It costs £200 for me to do it
- If I get bad grades, I make £200 worthless
- It is hard to find a tutor
So in conclusion, what do you think about law as a career and for uni.
I know you aren't career advisors, but I need help
Career expert Desophaeus help?
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Post by Desophaeus on Sept 28, 2016 17:47:45 GMT
How soon do you need to make a decision?
I'm thinking possibly a short-term duration to shadow people in the field you're interested in to see how truly what an everyday work day might look like. Not just what you would also be needing to do in order to reach that position in the adult real life world.
Good example: I declined to enter either medicine and law in here America specifically because of the red tape (paperwork) involved with those careers for the work day. A doctor theoretically is supposed to be a healer, seeing sick people and help them at an appointment, such and such. However the reality does differs from that due to the healthcare bureaucratic system. A doctor will typically maybe spend only 30 min to an hour per day seeing actual patients. The bulk of the doctor's workday is devoted to the paperwork stuff like HIPAA (rights of the patient to disclosure personal medicinal information), HMOs, more Healthcare Insurance-related paperwork, billing, invoices for medical testing, oh and submit requests for medical tests to be done on patients, and yep... prescriptions of medicines. Paperwork indeed...
If I wanted to be a doctor, I would have to take 7 years of med school (as in not even counting High School or a basic degree in college), then spend quite a lot of time as interns, then lowly doctors before becoming a fully-fledged doctor at last. Then by the time I am what I dreamt to be, what I would be? A guy who spends 8 hours a day doing paperwork, sees real people for only up to an hour at most.
Being a lawyer is even worse to me becuase it's the career that deals exclusively in paperwork itself and of itself. I can understand some people feeling passionate in becoming a lawyer, but it's not for me. I knew what a lawyer would probably go through a work day is like.
That gave me a clear answer to whether should I consider it or not.
So... for you... I'm sure you still want to practice law, I would say, go for it if you really do know for sure that you WOULD be quite happy being in that field. I suspect you don't know fully yet (I didn't really have any idea of what to do when I was in high school too - other than not being a doctor, lawyer, or a social worker). Again, how soon do you need to make this decision? If you have more time available, then you could do more research (not just online research, but to actually inquire adults in the real world outside the school).
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Post by Washington on Sept 28, 2016 17:59:25 GMT
I would have est 1-2 years
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Post by Desophaeus on Sept 28, 2016 18:22:00 GMT
I would have est 1-2 years Okay, so you have some time to observe people in the field of law in real life. This doesn't has to be a lawyer or nothing... I googled for 'careers in field of law' and one link caught my eye. I think this is worth a look. www.thebalance.com/hot-legal-careers-non-lawyers-2164308Now... if you can't think of one particular person that you do know (or someone who knows somebody else) in your area that does have a real career in this list (plus lawyer), it's going to be harder to find someone who you can observe. It's also going to be harder to find a person who can help you stay motivated through rough times in pursuit of this career for your future. Trust me... real life is brutal and tough, especially if you are on your own all by yourself. Realistically speaking... I think you have to have a good mentor or a role model you can connect to in order to achieve a difficult career path in what you feel passionate about.
Alternative: Maybe debates about ethics is what drew you into Law? Consider it as your hobby, but not what you could stake your future on it. One can always dabble in a hobby, but to make a career out of it, you can't make it alone on passion. You have to have actual talent in it as well, plus a HUGE amount of hard labor & sweat pour into it. The question is then... what are you pretty good at? (not necessarily what you enjoy) |
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Post by NetherFreek on Sept 28, 2016 19:05:44 GMT
There are career tests online. A lot of them, i advice you to fill in a few as well. See the results and you have a global overview of your intrests. Afterwards, try to remove those intrests which you dont like.
Now you should have a lot of possible studies. Look at what kind of jobs you can get with those studies. Look at those jobs, what are they doing in everyday live, how many hours. Do you make 100 or 10000 euros/dollars/yens/whatevers with it. Try to make an overview of those jobs.
if one study gets you to jobs you dont like, remove it.
Now look at the specific studies. Every school offers some open days in which you can basically look at the study and see whats expected from you. Remove the studies you dont like.
Now you should have around ~5 studies left. Make a summary of the studies AND the jobs you can get with it. Try to look at the every day life of the career and try to choose the best by eleminating the worst.
As you can see i prefer an eleminating proces. Why? There are more than a million studies to pick. You cant survey them all. So you have to look at the spectrum youre intrested at. Also now, you cant summarize them all. You need to make a rough overview at the beginning and then keep eliminating the ones you dislike. So you can go deeper and deeper in the studies you like. The ones you dont like anymore can be eliminated during the progress so you have enough time for the studies you actually like.
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