Oh Flyergirl,
Yes to become a lawyer you pay for CPE if you don't have a law degree, 12k. OR you have paid to go thru uni doing law about the same amount.
Next LPC another 10k now if you are lucky with a good 2:1 and a chambers takes you on you may be given a pupilship to become a trainee barrister which you could remain for a few years before you are called to the bar. You have to pay to use the chambers facilites and make next to nothing for about the first 5-6 years from the I want to be a barrister stage to standing on your own feet. Or you could become and articles clerk and then go on to become a solicitor another two years on rubbish wages b4 being given a certificate to practice.
So unless you read accountacy, optometry, nursing, education, medicine or similar you are going to need postgrad training for most professional jobs. Many peolpe self fund MBAs or postgrad diplomas. Hell if you want to work in networks who pays for your MCSE, CCNA or CISCO, etc courses. Chances are not the employer. A graduate from uni with an accountacnt degree earns 11-16 k for 3-4 years prior to finishing ACA, ACCA or CIMA. having had to pay on the numerous debts brought on by uni.
We just pay 30-50k get it sorted and then apply?
Is it wrong, yes of course it is, does anyone care, well only those of us at the bottom of the pile unfortunately. But hey, who said life was fair
