Am I too old?

[lilacclaire]

I hate my job with a vengence (debt collector in a call centre) and have kind of been drifting since having ds.
My partner works in care and is now a manager and i've always thought his job sounds great (yes I do hear all the moans as well).
I can't see myself working the rest of my life out doing what I do just now.
I have very little qualifications, they would all probably be obsolete by now anyway, at 32 and a HALF
am I too old to start again.
Im really worried about what finances you receive etc, could anyone give any advice on that. TIA!!
Oh and ive just submitted an application to college...

Are they? I spoke to a lawyer who said two. Oh, maybe I got that mixed with the bar/solicitor course? Maybe it was two years total!!!

I guess you work in law right? It seems very complicated and long! But I think worth it. The local uni has links with local solicitors firms, who offer sponsorship for those who live locally and want to stay working locally after qualifying.

So, it will be three years in total then?

the conversion course, as you know, is a year. The LPC/BVC is a year. Pupillage, one does 1st 6th, 2nd 6th and occasionally 3rd 6th. Training contract is a year...

So, it would only be 3 years... just knocked off a year for you...

Oh that is good. I just added the LPC to the training contract and the got it in my head that that was the training contract period!!

Sorry for hijacking the thread lilacclaire! . See your thread is encouraging others too!

Definitely not to old

But I would say that, of course, as I am 38 now and will be starting my OT degree soon

lilac, if you want to work as a support worker with people with learning disabilities, you could apply for a job in a home or somehting liek that, and usually your NVQ's will be paid for and you do your learning whilst earning.....

Go for it-you are far too young to be stuck in a job that you don't like!

How on earth can you believe that you're too old at nearly 33 years of age? Who has made you feel that you are? People around you? The media with their continual obsession with 'Miss X, at xx years of age...'?

You're never too old. By the time we're all in our seventies, it will be perceived in the same way that we view people in their fifties today. We'll all probably be living longer and need to be supporting ourselves for longer so it might as well be doing something that interests us.

I can't bear the view that if someone doesn't get the right A-levels grades (or whatever situation that's prevented them from getting the job they want to do), their life will be condemned to doing a job they find dull, forever. That would be a miserable existence. I wish that there was far greater enouragement and information for mature students.

How will you juggle your child care with it?

Crikey, I've realised that I've responded to an ancient post. Further education information is a bit fusty around here isn't it?