Inanna - last time I checked it was 4 years study for law... I *think* in Queensland you could do 3 years, and then do prac for 2 years and become one that way, or you do 4 years at uni, and then more study straight away to get past the prac - or something like that. Not sure what the requirements are in Tassie.

Whereas with nursing - I could do nursing at uni down here, fast track it through UTAS and get my degree in 2 years instead of 3 (as explained to me by the lovely Freya (think thats what your username is now.. lol))

I'm not against studying to be a midwife if I have to, to get into child health - but I'm sure I saw something the other day on the UTAS site that its a separate course to do child health so maybe I wouldn't have to study mid?

pixie -thats exactly what I'm afraid of too. Its just pretty fascinating to study, and I absolutely adored it (probably helped that I got the top scores all the time out of everyone so I actually had some confidence and felt intelligent - not anymore) And yes, time costing sucked - sucked doing it as a secretary.. ROFL and yeah, i would HATE to devote all that study and not do anything with it, its how i felt when I did 2 years and went to queensland and it was worth nothing - so I started off at 25 grand a year as a receptionist, and all my friends who I had studied with (who did worse than me) were getting paid at least 60 grand in their first job out of VU... very disheartening..