CutSelfishness

Since the govt has introduced its cuts there has been a lot of uproar about how much bankers are paid, How much pension they recieve, which cuts should happen, people demonstrating and most of all people demonstrating with banners that say "NO CUTS". Now i find this shocking because i struggle to see how some people can be so ignorant. Yes cuts need to happen, its a fact, some people will suffer more than others, thats life. We live in a world where bad things happen everyday. Recently we have just had comic relief, the pictures and videos we saw during comic relief, of people with no food, kids who were looking after kids because their parents have died of a disease, no clean running water. Stuff we take for granted. Earthquakes in Japen, Thousands of people dying. The people of Libya being shot at and killed by their own government. I think the people of this country including myself should take a step back and look at the cuts and what the governement is doing, then decide if they have it bad? My answer is simply NO. I'm a student, and i dont come from money, everything i do i do on my own. Yet i am fully aware that the mess this country is in is going to take some give and take from its citizens. Welfare should not be given out to people that can work and people that dont really need it. Certain things need to be cut. We are entitled to protest, and im all for democracy etc but i just think it is very very selfish given the circumstances that other countries around this world are suffering. Also people who protest and committ crimes, criminal damage, damage to areas of london that now the governement has to pay for. Explain how this is getting your point across? Like i said, step back, take a look at what Japan, Libya, Australia and New Zealand are going through and then tell me if a slight increase in certain things or a slight decrease in other areas is really something we have to worry about on the grand scale of things. My answer is NO. And never will be.

The Begining of the End

I left school with one A - C GCSE, I had no idea what to do next, So i went to college to do what a friend was doing, Mechanics. I did this for 2 years, And i think its fair to say it didnt pan out. You will be lucky even now if i know how to change a wheel :) .
I got to 19 and was stuck, What the hell do i do i asked myself. The answer came in the form of a course called an access course, Which i had never heard of before. It was in History and English Lit. I thought why not, I like history, Lets give it a whirl. Whilst doing that i had decided i would become a teacher. I worked with this idea, got a place at university studying history in order to progress to teaching. Finished the course in December , this meant i was qualified to go to uni, Having never done A levels etc this was a relief.
Feb 2010, Started working for a law firm called Beachcroft LLP, Just as a office services assistant, very mundane work but i enjoyed it and met some amazing people who have helped me a lot. During my time here i had yet another brainwave, I will study law instead of history, Everyone who knew me gave me the old "god are you changing your mind again", they were right in what they were saying, I have a habit of doing that. But that was until i found law, i had never enjoyed something so much, and not being academic didnt seem to effect that. I understood it, It seemed to fit the way my mind worked. I finally found my, not to be cliche, but my calling so to speak. It felt right. So i set my plan into motion, Talked about swapping my course from history to law and go from there. I got the same changing your mind speech which seemed to be a continueous thread throughout my life for as long as i can remember. Ploded along to the applicant open day at the University of Lincoln, Sat in a few boring speechs, the death by power point ones, then went to see a bearded man behind a make shift desk in what looked like a toilet, and said "i would like to change my course pls", having said that, i thought it was going to be hard to do and a big drawn out process, he turns to me "yh sure whats your name and what would you like to change to" "James and Law pleasse" "Done" Wow, thats it? Trotted of home and got the papers with the change through the post the next day. I was now embarking on a career in law. I have been at uni now for a year now, Coming to the end of my first year. The reason i wanted to start from the begining on here is simply that a lot of people who start a law degree have doubts as to whether they can do it. I no i did. I have practically no GCSE's and no ALevels whatsoever and would not class myself as intelligent, but i am getting 2:1s, im running for president of our law society and i have decided to embark on a career at the criminal bar. I want people to think that they can do it, if you really want something , no matter what barriers may appear to be in your way, you can kick them down and do exactly what you want to do. Anything is possible, thats what i feel anyway. I didnt intend this to be some kind of inspirational crap haha, But thats the past 5 years of my life summed up. You want something, go get it, Its not easy, but its so worth it. And i think anybody in the legal profession would agree with me?