How come some professions are easy to get into and others aren't

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jakearmitage

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For example anyone can do Accounting and if one works it can be fairly lucrative but not everyone can do medcine dentistry or Law?
 
Anyone can do any profession they want/capable of. But in certain professions there is limited opportunities.
 
There are limitations on every job, but they vary a lot.

Medicine and Dentistry require 6 or 7 years study in a University. Entry is limited by the number of available places in these colleges.

Anyone with the required academic achievement can study law in college. There must be thousands of places between all the universities and colleges. Even if you are not a law graduate, you can become a solicitor by studying with the Law Society. The limitation though is that you have to find a solicitor willing to take you in on a training contract. There are very few such places available now.

Accountancy is even more open. There are three major international institutes operating in Ireland and a few other national ones. They all compete for students. You can pass all the exams of some institutes without any work experience but you won't be admitted as a member until you get approximately three years' work experience.

Brendan
 
Unless you have a very good leaving like plus 550points then there is little chance of doing Law medcine or dentistry
 
Jack is right - you need high points to do law as an undergraduate degree in one of the universities here in Ireland. You can also do law via another degree + a conversion course + blackhall/kings inns, none of which would necessarily require high leaving cert points. I believe you can also do medicine/dentistry in e.g. the UK for far lower leaving cert points than here, and then do an equivalence exam (or something) over here.
 
You could always take the law entrance exams without studying law in the standard universities. There was a 2 year prep course in portobello with minimum requirements.
You could also take law as an option in Galway arts and do a 2 year post grad to get your llb

Graduate entry is more widely available these days for dentistry ,medicine etc so if you really want to study it you can with a primary degree and without points in leaving cert.
I believe now that entry to medicine is based on an entrance exam combined with a minimum number of points (about 500?)
 
jakearmitage said:
For example anyone can do Accounting and if one works it can be fairly lucrative but not everyone can do medcine dentistry or Law?
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Because its not always about money. Somethings are just more desirable to more people than other things.
 
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