Most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED degrees

Overrated- Law (Dont do it! you will find it ridiculously hard to become a solicitor/barrister and, even if you are lucky enough to win the lottery that is landing a training contract/pupillage, the amount of butt kissing you would have had to do to reach that point will make your lips look as sore and pink as a pigs inflamed arse!)

Is that a slight upon all students practicing law? Is it?

You stuck-up, upward nose pointing medicine ponces - think you're so much better than everybody else

Just messing by the way.

can you read this

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3583397

People always make this assumption, but not everyone who studies law wants to go into to the legal profession. Law is useful for so much more than that. It's a strong academic subject requiring critical thought and the absorption and appreciation of high levels of complex information. Along with an abundance of legal knowledge, this puts law grads in a perfect position to apply for jobs in business and put in competitive applications for grad schemes.

I think people who make this assumption suppose that once law grads have failed to become solicitors or barristers, they just roll into a ball and retreat into irrelevance. No, they can still do a whole range of things with their degree.

But a lot do try and fail to become lawyers

People always make this assumption, but not everyone who studies law wants to go into to the legal profession. Law is useful for so much more than that. It's a strong academic subject requiring critical thought and the absorption and appreciation of high levels of complex information. Along with an abundance of legal knowledge, this puts law grads in a perfect position to apply for jobs in business and put in competitive applications for grad schemes.

I think people who make this assumption suppose that once law grads have failed to become solicitors or barristers, they just roll into a ball and retreat into irrelevance. No, they can still do a whole range of things with their degree.

How do you convince an employer from a different field, say banking, to take you on if you do law mate?

That's irrelevant to the point I am making.

You were ignoring the point he was making.

Overrated- Law (Dont do it! you will find it ridiculously hard to become a solicitor/barrister and, even if you are lucky enough to win the lottery that is landing a training contract/pupillage, the amount of butt kissing you would have had to do to reach that point will make your lips look as sore and pink as a pigs inflamed arse!)

The point she made was that a) law is overrated because b) it is ridiculously hard to become a solicitor or barrister.

I responded by explaining that the argument made was flawed because a) not everyone who studies law wants to become a lawyer; and b) should people not want to pursue a legal career or they have not been successful in pursuing one, a law degree offers excellent career prospects outside of the legal profession. That directly related to the point the other poster made about the utility of a law degree. What you are suggesting is that I go off on a tangent rather than address the point made.

How do you convince an employer from a different field, say banking, to take you on if you do law mate?

I'm on my phone; you expect me to care and bother checking genders?

Most people who study law do aim to become lawyers, let's be honest. Many who fail may say they never wanted to in the first place to save face. It's not known to be a particularly interesting degree for the majority; it has a reputation for being dry. Other more interesting alternatives that link more directly to a career in a business environment would be: management, economics, business. If you wanted to work in business and that's your aim, you'd study one of those as they're more directly relevant and most people would consider them more interesting.

There are high expectations of a future high paying career in law for many law applicants. Most don't achieve that. So the fact that a huge number of law students fail to become lawyers, let alone well paid ones, is hugely relevant to the fact it is overrated.

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Again, the aforementioned employers don't care about what degree you study - this is the case for the majority of grad schemes in fact.

It's almost discouraged to do an undergrad business degree if you want to do consulting/IB.


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Again, the aforementioned employers don't care about what degree you study - this is the case for the majority of grad schemes in fact.

It's almost discouraged to do an undergrad business degree if you want to do consulting/IB.


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why? i thought things like Warwick business school were targeted by IBs

I'm not talking about the point of view of employers.

My point is that a sixth form student who wants to work in business, is more likely to want to study one of the degrees I mentioned, rather than law.

And your last statement isn't correct.

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Earth sciences is underrated. I know not everyone finds rocks appealing, but it's a really broad subject with good career prospects and very high student satisfaction.