HELP...stupid spending habits!!

Voyager2002

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

That's because you're still in denial - you CAN get a job alongside your training contract, you're just making more excuses. Do you expect money to magically appear from nowhere and wipe your debts? It's not going to happen.

As for being barred from becoming a solicitor through breaking a contract - well you probably need to do a little more study

Please don't give advice without thinking about the consequences if it were followed. Firstly, if the OP breaks one of the conditions of her training contract teh consequences could be disastrous: at best a tense relationship with her employer, at worst dismissal. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get a training contract? Do you understand that successfully completing this contract is the only way to qualify as a solicitor? Secondly, that restriction on outside work is there for very good reasons. A law student needs to work very hard to pass the relevant professional exams and get the practical experience they need while making themselves useful to their employer and doing something to earn their training allowance. Working alongside would mean that these important tasks would not be completed, and would lead to disaster.

Anyway, the OP's problem is not lack of money now, so much as coming to terms with bad decisions.

freshofftheblock

DON'T get a job on the sly! You're risking too much - how would your dad feel if it backfired and you both lost out. If the debt is interest free, keep the it until the summer, pay it off slowly and leave it at that. If you are paying interest get a graduate account from RBS or the like with an interest free overdraft.

I'm sure everyone giving 'advice' hasn't made the best decisions in the past - give us grads a break - it isn't always that easy to admit your failures with ppl ready to jump down your throat.

Also... I'm not sure how some posters can say the OP is still in denial after they have requested help...

skintstudent84

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retepetsir

Can you answer the questions that a few people have already asked....?

Like your monthly expenditure, is £200 all you survive on, etc?

Blacksheep1979

skintstudent84 wrote: »

Erm, please don't patronise me. Legally I imagine there is very little they could do about it- yes it is a breach of contract but they have suffered no loss. The point is that I would have breached their trust- if they found out about this I would have to go in front of a panel at the Law Society (now the Solicitor's Regulation Authority) who could, at their discretion, choose to have me thrown out of the Society. Without this membership I will not be able to practice again. Surely you must understand the potential consequences that would cause me? This isn't a case of me being lazy re: a job, it is my entire career at stake if they find out. A solicitor is in a position of trust, this training contract is my route into that position and I am not prepared to f**k it up because you think I am being lazy. The exams I have to pass now are solely so I can be allowed to practice as per the Law Society's regulations. I may as well just give up the entire course now if I were to follow your suggestions. I suggest you don't comment where you don't know the facts in future.

Kind of looks like any direct comments are going to be patronising as you have your head in the sand. The basic facts of the matter are you have debt and need to sort it, the only real soloution is money and this (in most peoples cases) comes not from the bank of daddy but from a job.

Yes I do know what I'm on about, the no. of my friends that have trained as and qualified as a soliciter kinda gives me an idea of what it's about. How do you honestly think they're going to find out about you working a few hours a week cash in hand in a pub etc? They're not and you seem to be seeking either an easy way out or purely wanting sympathy.

Drawing from your first post are you actually on a training contract or are you doing some form of lpc or similar?

and before you try dismiss my comments again I'll draw your attention to

skintstudent84 wrote: »

(and i am willing to hear anything!!)

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The_One_Who

If you are not allowed to work then how do other students manage?

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G-G_4

How come you can't have a job? (genuine question as I don't know)... x

Would they review that decision if you told them you were struggling with the cost of living (don't have to mention debts) and that if you had a job you feel you could still study to the same level?

*this isn't a critisism by the way, just a general question*