Hi all,

I have been having a bit of crisis in life recently and wondering what I can do to further myself in life and give myself some sort of sense of purpose.

A bit of background, I am 31 years old, with 3 children. My oldest is 17, no judgement please, I wasn’t given a choice in his conception. Then my now husband came along and I thought sod it, may as well complete the family since I’ve already got one, so my other two children are 13 and 11.
Having children so young really limited me in terms of education, I did continue to A level if only to prove to others that I wasn’t incapable of achieving things for myself.
I never told my family that my oldest was a result of being raped (it was someone I knew and I felt as though it was my fault) and I kept my pregnancy a secret until people found out when I was almost 8 months pregnant.
All of the above is probably irrelevant, I suppose I just needed to get it off my chest.
Anyway, for the last 10 years my husband and I and have established a very successful business, but I have to say, I have become tired and uninspired of working with him and my in-laws, it’s beginning to cause a strain on our relationship and I have been looking into the Open University, mainly to give myself something else to focus on, but also to learn about something I have a genuine interest in.
The only two things really being forensic psychology and law. Forensic psychology trumping the top spot, but saying that, being able to achieve career opportunities at the end of it needs to play a minor part at the very least, I have come to the conclusion that opportunities in forensic psychology are considerably more competitive and difficult to come across than those in law, along with my age and the length of time retraining in this area takes, I think realistically looking at law is my best option.
Open University will be the most suited option to me given I also have a family and business to look after, I realise it’ll be hard and I’ll have to motivate myself mostly, but that doesn’t put me off in the slightest.

I am really leaning towards enrolling on The Bachelor Of Laws (LLB) and since I don’t have a degree, I can use the student loan to help fund it.

I am aware that the process of becoming a solicitor changed only last year, so there are probably not many people out there that can advise, my specific interest in law is probably employment / immigration / criminal defence.

I think my main aim looking into the future, is to be fully retrained and qualified by the time I get to 40, will enrolling at the OU on Bachelor Of Laws put me on the path in the right direction? Or is this just an unrealistic pipe dream.

Any thoughts welcome even if it’s off topic!

thank you all and sorry for the unnecessary long post