I am taking exams alongside my job (law/accountacy/related field) and this is honestly one of the hardest things I have ever done!! I am close to the end now but it has been an extremely rough ride with fails along the way. I have come to the conclusion that I am really not ah exams person. I am very ambitious and a grafter in the workplace but hate the exams process - the endless studying, juggling, anxiety, helplessness... I really hate it! This is off the back of a degree and good grades at school, I sort of wish I had drawn the line there. Is it essential to career success in these competitive fields to have a further qual? I am almost there now so will continue but feeling so very demoralised and ground down, and like it reflects badly on me to have found the process so arduous (when it seems like a lot of my intake sailed through!)