My wife and I had a crisis meeting some years ago.
I was sick of my job, and she was unfulfilled with hers. I didn’t know what to, do but she felt like becoming a solicitor! Winner, I thought early retirement here we come (not the pensions things again, promise!)
She enrolled at Teesside University, only to find out that the degree school was important. Wasted a year finding that out. Then began again at Northumbria University Law School (an hour away!) Plus they also did the Legal Practise course which you need to qualify which can only be done at a handful of universities in the country.
Now the rub: 7 years later, a good degree qualification, a commendation in the LPC and god knows how much spent on tuition fees and petrol getting up and down the road, late nights and crummy part time jobs, she can’t get a traineeship, as nobody is hiring. What a depressing waste of time.
Plan B: Move to Canada.