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Career in Law for a Postgrad? Advice needed!!?
I'm in the UK and have a 2:1 degree in Ancient and Medieval History which hasn't helped me get a job. Since graduating I've worked in office and callcentre jobs and I'm currently at home with my 8 month old baby.
I want to use this time to retrain and reskill so that when he's older I can go back to work.
I am passionate about people's rights and love debating and wonder if I would be cut out for something in the legal profession.
Not necessarily criminal law but maybe protecting people in their rights - ie housing, employment and so forth. I am passionately against victimisation of the poorer by those in power and having been nearly evicted myself and saw my other half go through an unfair dismissal case I see the need for good legal advice.
I see myself working for maybe Shelter, or Acas perhaps (also a Cit Advice Volunteer) or maybe a Magistrate.
What sort of course would I need to do? Could I convert the degree I already have? Can anyone give me some advice?
It would take you several years to qualify as a barrister or solicitor. http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/directory/england/index.html
You could apply to be a lay magistrate here and now. http://www.dca.gov.uk/magistrates/index.htm It's no good setting your sights on being a District Judge (what we used to call a Stipendiary Magistrate), as that is a very long process involving a successful career in the magisterial service. You perhaps don't realise now how very much of your time and energy children continue to take. If they are taken ill at school, it is always the mother who is sent for -- however inconvenient -- not the father, who might be in a better position to get away from work. It's also very hard to study with small children around. Why not apply to be a magistrate and see where it takes you? You will make all kinds of contacts and get all sorts of ideas about where your talents could be best used.
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