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Hi all,
I’m a Social carer and want to get a job in accounting and /or tutoring. I’m starting from the bottom up, using BPP texts and the OpenTuition after many years of poor health and education set-backs.
I was quite comfortable with the 10 year ‘limit’ (I’ll be 52 then !) As time is not on my side, i’m very much the ‘old man in a hurry’.
Fortunately I have plenty of time to study and 2-3 papers a year looks ok. Granted, some papers are easier than others.
I personally feel less pressured than if I were doing a distance degree ( I live in the far north of Scotland but planning to move to Southern England (my roots) in five years.
I intend to hurry as best I can !!
atbWell done alkemist.
I don’t have an academic background and probably the I.Q of a haggis, in fact I’m a carer for disabled folks in Northern Scotland. I need a change as i’m 42 years old and previously never had the confidence to train for any other work due to illness all through my twenties. Care work was ‘just there’ as it were, plus I was i’ll through my late teens well into my twenties, so any job had to do to pay the mortgage and fill my belly, as it were.
I found this site a few minutes ago and upon reading the testimonials, was very pleasantly surprised to read that many folks have studied on this site and not bothered with BPP/ Kaplan ( Kaplan ACCA-which I was about to sign up to).
As you say alkemist, other people have passed so why not me. They say there is a 1:6 chance of dying whilst climbing Everest, but many folks are ‘dying’ to get there. I think with hard work, there is a better chance of passing ACCA and without the cost or frostbite for survivors !
Look forward to speaking to other ‘intrepid explorers’ in a similar situation. ATB