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Mature study and retraining

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Career transition away from architecture

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Timeforarethink121 · 28/07/2025 15:10

As it says - fully qualified and 15 years experience, mainly domestic sector these days. Every job is fight to get built, the hours are awful and pay for those hours is rubbish, way below every other comparative level of qualification.

I need to be able to support our family (DH also working, comparative level of income so not on my own,) but thinking I should give up altogether and retrain to get out of the sector. Don't have the financial option to stop work altogether and retrain, so this needs to be part time while the practice is wound down.

Does anyone have any knowledge about conversion to become a solicitor? Considering as we've bought/sold around 10 houses in our lives so far and I've been heavily involved in pushing through the conveyancing..)

Or other ideas? Definitely NOT construction law, or project management in the construction industry. Just feeling like I've worked myself into a dead end.

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Timeforarethink121 · 21/04/2026 18:46

(I don't think domestic architecture experience is what PP want and haven't worked outside that sphere for ten years. It's a shame - my husband was really behind it and said he thought there are loads of transferrable skills, but there you are. I did ask for feedback as to why, but they just said they get too many applications to reply in detail to all of them.)

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AnythingButThis · 21/04/2026 18:49

Ah that’s a pity - and I bet you have loads of transferrable skills

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