I, like many, have decided to embark on a quest that will hopefully lead me to the coveted and dreaded Graduate diploma in Law qualification. One that I plan to use to go on to study the bar, pause for sympathy, and I can honestly say that it is only now, in this particular hour , that I am sat in front of my computer contemplating the OK button, that I really ask myself the question- "Is this worth it?"
For most of us the next few years will not only be a marriage between us and law, but most of us will be dragging along the mistresses attached to the many familial ties we now depend upon. I myself, consider moving back home a necessary step backwards in order to amass the funds required. Nevertheless, I'm reminded daily of the displeasure this has spawned.
It's not a case of whether of not I want to do it, or whether or not I think I can do it (Although confidence is fading with every word of advice I get), but simply is it worth the £9500 or so that it costs be in a position to be considered to be taken on for training. The College of Law and Bpp's refusal to shed a little transparency on fee allocation doesn't help in the slightest either, together with their failure to secure a reasonable financial provider, I think it's probably that the majority of us (self funding individuals) have found ourselves in this moral dilemma. Can we really afford to follow our dreams just because we want to?
