Well Doctors spend 7 years in training accumulating debts to the order of £30,000 and if they then wish to enter General Practice they will need to get a loan of say £50,000 to buy into a halfway decent practice. Starting pay is often then in the order of £50,000 pa with unsocial hours, increased life and insurance premiums and the very real possibility of assault at work several times a year.
Similarly someone training to become a Barrister is likely to accumulate debts of well into £50,000 to become qualified over the period of 4 years when pay is miniscule. It can then take a further 3 years to find a position in a firm operating in your prefered area of law. But then the pay, terms and conditions accelerate away like nobodies business. One does have to be actually quite clever and studious mind.
I have friends doing both.
I had the cheaper, easier and more fun deal I think.
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ps Talking pre Sept 11th that is.