I've been thinking quite a lot lately about studying Law at university (when I get my education back on track). I've always had an interest in it, particularly in the areas of mental health and criminal law, but here in the UK it's a very competitive degree course to get onto at a half decent university and I've always been put off by the "money hungry lawyer" image and my mum put me off it when I was talking about it saying that I don't have the personality to be any kind of solicitor/barrister, which is true, I'm definitely not assertive and my grades throughout school including my GCSEs were just average, Bs and Cs mostly (school was a tough time for me), though I left school three years ago.

I don't think I want/know if I want to be in the mainstream legal profession, but I want to study the degree course, if that makes sense. Afterwards I could possibly join the police and go into CID after the 2 year probationary period (as a frontline/beat copper), although I'm not sure i'd be accepted into the police with my mental health record, or perhaps go into mental health advocacy, someone suggested this before though I seriously need to do more research, and if not then I would just really like to study the degree, I do find most areas of law interesting.

Does anyone have any advice for me? About getting in the door at least if not any career suggestions. I've been thinking of maybe resitting my GCSEs privately and then doing a Social Sciences Access to HE course and maybe try to get some voluntary work along the way. Or should I just stick to my original plan of going into the biological sciences since it's a long shot?

I'm 19 atm and I'm at that stage of life where I am not fully sure what the hell I want lol, I'm unemployed as well, relying on my family for support and moving soon. Thanks.