i am too old
to do most of what i spend most of my weekends and evenings doing, i think, at some point i should try and get some sleep.

at 16... i would say: don't bother he's gay, don't bother he's a cunt, don't bother losing your virginity/staying with him for 3 years as he won't make you come even once and it's a total waste of your uni shagging years, and maybe if you actually did some work you'd have got a first instead of doing no work and missing it by 1% (english degrees are not difficult!)
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 11 Oct 2010, 23:56, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

How did you get into Law if you did an English degree?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:00, Reply)

in a v brief nutshell
graduated, thought wtf do i do with this degree? went back to my holiday job as a property letting/managing agent, but full-time. got given the arrears and court work because (i) i was good at english and (ii) i can't count. after a few months i decided to do the law conversion, got a training contract easily because i had already gained court and legal experience, and the rest is history!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:04, Reply)

I'd have loved to have done law, I have that kind of mind, but my degree is in English. I didn't think it through at the time, applied to something I liked, not something lucrative.
Too late now for me, I'm 30 and have to keep a roof over my head, so no real opportunity to go and do another BA.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:07, Reply)

not too late at all
you get paid for doing your training contract. so you'd need a career development loan to cover the 2 years at college, then the rest is paid for. the plus sides are that it is bloody interesting and it pays a stupid amount of money and there is a certain degree of kudos to it. the negatives are the long hours, the fact that everyone is applying at the moment, and the fact that law attracts the ignorant and the arrogant!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:11, Reply)

What qualification is the two years at college?
And how do I get a training contract? Before or during college?

Gaz me the details.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:14, Reply)

i will gaz you
but in a nutshell: being older/having a different background is a good thing. law firms like that. you apply to the lawfirm, have interviews, if they offer you a training contract, you then go off to college for 2 years. big lawfirms pay your fees and sponsor you.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:16, Reply)

Okay
What sort of roles in law firms? Any pointers for ones local to me?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:17, Reply)

training contracts
you need the grad recruitment section. are you married to where you live? there is a college of law there, go and speak to them.

otherwise i would look up the uk top 100 law firms and apply to all of them. that's pretty much how i did it. you'll need good a-levels and at least a 2:1 though, or you can pretty much forget it!

you get a 1 year post-grad diploma in law, then what is known as the "legal practice course" or LPC which is a piece of piss but essential for people going into law firms. although personally i think its days are numbered.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:19, Reply)

My A Levels were pretty poor- B,C,E, but I have a 2.1
I have ordered the 2011 GDL prospectus.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 8:06, Reply)

Well bar bringing yourself off because the fella couldn't
How else did you waste your uni years?

To miss a 1st by 1% with minimal work is still very good going.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:01, Reply)

i wasted them being faithful to that loser!
gaaaah...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:03, Reply)

Never mind
I lost my best years in a bad marriage.

Never mind eh? Until TGB finally builds her time travel machine we just have to accept it.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:10, Reply)

you can't undo it
so you have to take the good out of it. otherwise you drive yourself mad!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:11, Reply)

Exactly.
You had 3 years without an orgasm, I got married.

You win.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:18, Reply)

yes
thanks to him i don't think i had an orgasm until i was about 22!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:20, Reply)

I dare say the pent up frustration
of that meant it was a cracker.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:22, Reply)

i was more relieved than anything else
i just thought, oh so that's what all the fuss is all about.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:24, Reply)

What a depressing reaction.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:29, Reply)

haha i have certainly made up for it since
besides, he had a great time for 3 years. i learned a huge amount about giving orgasms if not about receiving them, so it's all good!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:31, Reply)

Swipe has the body of a plasterers radio.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 0:40, Reply)