My son is bright, articulate, and ridiculously lazy. He coasted his GCSEs at grammar school, not reading a single book and still managed to achieve A-C grades in 9 subjects. He decided A levels were not for him and he is now in college studying business management, and is in his second year where I suggested that he "specialised" in finance.
I am in marketing, and I did not want him to choose this as his specialisation as this career path is fraught with redundancies. He is also very good with numbers, and enjoys things that are regular rather than creative. So finance seemed to be a good option. He seems to be enjoying this and is clearly studying much harder in this environment than he was at school.
He is now researching jobs (college has said he can "leave" to go to full time apprentice employment, providing he keeps up with his course work).
He has seen a number of apprentice accountancy positions offering around 190-250 per week which include AAT level 3 and 4 training. I think this sounds pretty good, and am encouraging him to go for this.
My AIBU is that I don't actually know much about accountancy myself. I have researched online, and I think I have advised him correctly, but would love some feedback from a real accountant as to whether this is the right way forward or if we should be directing him differently.
He is comfortable with the idea of accountancy and likes the concept of a clear promotion path based on exams etc. and enjoys working with figures and appears good at it.
Does anyone have any advice they can offer or point me in a better direction that does not include reading the entire AAT website (again!)
Any help much appreciated :)