Is training as a legal assistant worthwhile?
Hi,
I'm currently attending secondary school and aiming to graduate with my secondary school diploma in 2026. My uncle is a lawyer and encouraged me to learn more about becoming a paralegal.
However, I'm still unsure which career is right for me. I've often considered pursuing a degree after my training and then becoming a teacher. So my questions are: How much will I earn during this training? Is it worth studying something other than law afterward? What would you do in my situation?
Cat😺
PS: If you want to understand me better and help me, you can read about my exact situation in my question "How do I find my dream job," which I posted eight days ago. Thanks.
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As you describe it in your other question, you should listen much less to this uncle!
You are in real school – with very good performance! You’re interested in maths and natural sciences. You should go on the way to Abi! It really speaks a lot for you to succeed. And no, not as your uncle claims because you are “well-clear in the system school” but because you obviously bring potential and interest in many areas. I would even advise you to take the change to the gymnasium right now, usually makes this change much easier than if you change only after the middle maturity.
And if you like math, don’t let it slow you down! For example, do a matheolympiade, just for fun and to see how far you’re going to:). Joy in this subject, where so many pupils are struggling with, is something you should definitely hold, expand and promote.
Of course it’s worth training, only you can’t study with it.
I have already explained this in the commentary by @Pennerelite
Leave this with the training, do Abitur and then study. Do not waste time with a training.
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You can’t study law.
Not directly, no. But you can do the BOS and complete the law school. In my knowledge, this is often done after this training. At least my uncle knows some who did that.
I don’t know a single lawyer who doesn’t have a full abitur.
Yeah.
Do your parents have Abitur? I do!
What practical experience? How it is to get up at 7:00 and drive to work?
It’s not a big difference to school.
I know only my parents and I meanwhile also that it’s better to get practical experience after school and then to study. It doesn’t always have to go about the career Pennerlite!
Take you to study 0. Zero
Right.
Sorry, BOS said, and yes, of course, that would go. But I didn’t want to finish training for practical experience.
Then you don’t need the training, then you can go directly to the FOS or not?
You can also do full abitur through the FOS. But I didn’t want to discuss this.