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Re: Should I ditch combined law to do single commerce? Please help me in my major dil
I'm not really sure about Arts/Sci because I don't do them and haven't really talked to anyone who is in business who has (my mentor and his workmates at PwC all have Comm/Law degrees), but Law is probably your best bet at being something directly related to the business field.
Legal writing skills are hard to pick up on so for you to get a credit in an assignment with poor legal writing skills is an achievement. I got 40% in my first law assessment and 29/30 in the next one. It's all about just learning and adapting.
If I were you, just stick with Law and get more involved with your business society (that's what I've done). I've seen that UNSW puts on a lot of sponsored competitions and networking events so you should attend those and make friends with members on the society (and the recruiters from the companies that come) and try and get onto the committee. The PwC grad recruiter knows our entire society by name and talks to us as if she's already accepted our vaccies applications - and sure enough none of those who applied have been rejected. You can get far if you just meet the 65+ required and network properly. Employment is scary, but you can either adapt and get ahead or stay scared about it. There are lots of people who do single Business degrees getting jobs, so it's not to say you are completely screwed if you don't do a double degree, but it certainly doesn't hurt to have Law under your belt. Law really opens doors for you - far more doors in Business than Science or Arts will. But at the end of the day, if you can't engage with the subject and can't see yourself finishing the degree, there's really no point in keeping it on because it'll jeopardise everything.
That's alright. I was in the same boat as you last year and basically I learnt to just be pessimistic about everything and take advantage of anything that'll give you that extra kick because thanks to some very nice people who were in government and decided that university placements should be uncapped now everyone has a business and/or law degree which makes it that much harder for any of us to get a job.
I'm not really sure about Arts/Sci because I don't do them and haven't really talked to anyone who is in business who has (my mentor and his workmates at PwC all have Comm/Law degrees), but Law is probably your best bet at being something directly related to the business field.
Legal writing skills are hard to pick up on so for you to get a credit in an assignment with poor legal writing skills is an achievement. I got 40% in my first law assessment and 29/30 in the next one. It's all about just learning and adapting.
If I were you, just stick with Law and get more involved with your business society (that's what I've done). I've seen that UNSW puts on a lot of sponsored competitions and networking events so you should attend those and make friends with members on the society (and the recruiters from the companies that come) and try and get onto the committee. The PwC grad recruiter knows our entire society by name and talks to us as if she's already accepted our vaccies applications - and sure enough none of those who applied have been rejected. You can get far if you just meet the 65+ required and network properly. Employment is scary, but you can either adapt and get ahead or stay scared about it. There are lots of people who do single Business degrees getting jobs, so it's not to say you are completely screwed if you don't do a double degree, but it certainly doesn't hurt to have Law under your belt. Law really opens doors for you - far more doors in Business than Science or Arts will. But at the end of the day, if you can't engage with the subject and can't see yourself finishing the degree, there's really no point in keeping it on because it'll jeopardise everything.
family and friends say noone drops law this soon. btw just got my court report back yesterday and got 6.5/10 so definitely not law student material...
