Need some advice

CIS

after wondering how I can find #1K or so for my next OU course, Ive discovered that they'll top up and cover the entire fee (around #1700).

Now, it leaves me with a dilemma:

Do I do a cert in accountancy - would get me qualified and in to ajob easier

or

Do I work towards the law diploma and then on to a law degree ? - takes longer but the longterm rewards will be better

Anyone have any advice or experience to offer?

melancholly

it depends what you want to do! law and accountancy are very different and obviously whatever choice you make may exclude the other possibility.

i guess i see this as a choice you can only make yourself!! good luck with it though!

muddled_midget

I agree with melancholly, it depends which career you want. I don't know your situation, but getting some experience in both sectors would give you some more idea of which career will suit you best, even if it's just a days shadowing of each in local firms, plus a chat about the positives and negatives of each career.
Good luck
MM

dharm999

CIS

If it were me I would go down the accountancy route, I should say that I am an accountant and so have a vested interest I guess!! My brother and sister are both lawyers and wer extremely lucky to get articles with a law firm that meant they could get qualified as a solicitor. If you don't get a law firm to support you through the law school then this cost is for you to find and it can be substantial, well into the thousands. If you go down the accountancy route then as long as you find a firm willing to employ you they will pay for you to be trained. At the moment there are a shortage of qualified accountants so the accountancy firms are looking to take on more trainees. But at the end of the day its about whatever kind of work you enjoy doing. They are very different careers, and its down to what kind of work you like to do.