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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Social work sucks, I'd go to law.  Why don't you try being a legal advocate for kids?[/quote]

OP here.  That's a good suggestion.  The problem is, I don't think I would be a very good lawyer.  I honestly didn't understand much of the material in law school, though I got almost all A's just through memorizing a bunch of stuff and being able to regurgitate on exams.  But the law honestly never made sense to me.  I'm more of a creative thinker.  I'm not a very rational thinker, to be honest.

Plus I've been out of law school now so long that I do not remember anything.  I don't remember anything from legal research classes, either.[/quote]

Most lawyers I have dealt with don't remember much either.  Same with social work - its all learning by doing.  You are going to have a tuff time getting a job that pays reasonably well in social work.  I've been out the same amount of time and if I went back, I'd have to start over making significantly less than what I started with.  There is not as much creativity in social work.  It is one of those professions where it sounds better than it is and there are so many barriers and obstacles in the public sector, more times than not, the help can be more harmful than helpful.  Except for the unhappy people who thrive on chaos, almost every social worker I know has left to be a SAHM and if they return to work it is in a different profession such as HR.[/quote]

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