From geography to the legal profession: it’s not a connection that people easily make. How do you go from spending hours wandering through rivers in waders to hours determining what a single word in a contract means? But the more I spend time reflecting on my career choice and talking to others who took the same path, the more I realise that I am still using the skills I learnt from studying geography.
I’ll start by saying that law is not the career path I expected to take when I began studying geography at A-level. What did appeal to me about geography, however, was its breadth and the options it would give me. During my degree, I was encouraged to study both human and physical geography but also to branch out and see how geographers fit into other worlds. This helped me realise just how flexible geographers are and how many options might be available to me after I had finished university. While some may see us as limited to our maps, geography is everywhere and the skills that geographers gain are useful in all sorts of careers.
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