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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Don't. Do. It.
It is highly overrated as a career.
Essentially, entrepreneurs are strikers, bankers and corporate people are mid field while lawyers are ball keepers.
Go into something else: For e.g. Business opens a lot more doors. One of my best friends got both law and business but decided to stick to law for the "prestige". He regrets it tremendously although he is currently doing his training contract at one of the big 4 firms.
The nature of work that you do is really doglike for the first few years. It can be things as stupid as counting the numbers of pages manually in a document. If you see yourself doing such doglike work, go ahead but don't say I never warned you.
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Hi, Thanks for the reply. I originally intended to do a business degree but I felt that i was too generic. There is also a glut of ppl with a biz degree including those from private uni.. I considered doing an accountancy degree instead as I wanted a specialised degree. However, I realised that the nature of the auditing industry is similar to that of the legal one - long working hours etc. I'm really in a dilemma.. Also, isit really that hard to get a training contract? If i fail to secure one directly after graduation, is there anything i can do to get one? eg. work a few years in the industry as a paralegal before leveraging on working experience to land a training contract