Despite my tongue-in-cheek post earlier, I'd like to say that, although there are no doubt, companies that will hire a gash licence holder just to make up the numbers, most employers are as interested in your CV as they are in the licences you hold. Certainly you need the right licence to apply for a job, but applicants with tickets they found in a Corn Flakes packet are easy enough to spot.
As to the career, mine's been pretty OK so far.
BTW freikorps, my children who went into law found themselves slaving sixty hours a week for peanuts for the first ten years. They're just starting to make a bit of money now. Almost as much as a Britannia LAE in fact. And for every newly qualified lawyer just entering the profession, their chances of one day getting a partnership are about the same as for any of us making CEO.