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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  When I pursued the JD/MSW degree, my main interests were in social work, but I thought I'd get the JD as well to have more options.  Part of the issue is that I found most legal stuff I studied/dealt with to be incredibly boring and hard to understand.  Maybe I'm just dumb, but I have a hard time understanding really boring, complicated material, which made up most of my legal studies.

Social work appealed to me more, and I liked feeling like I was really making a difference in my job.  I can see going back to social work, though it took me almost a year to find my social work job, so it's not an easy job market for someone without the LCSW.

I always had difficulty choosing a career.  There was nothing I felt I was especially good at/leaned toward in college, and ever since graduating with my JD/MSW I have had a lot of career indecision.

Like I said in my original post, my career has been one failure after another.  I am hoping to turn over a new leaf and pursue something I'm both interested in and good at.

If I was able to go back to college and start over, I would probably have chosen something in the health professions: become a physical therapist, speech pathologist, optometrist, occupational therapist or nurse.  I always gravitated more toward the health professions but I was always terrible at math and science, so I discouraged myself from pursuing them, though in college I was on the pre-med track for awhile.

It's probably too late now to go back for a third degree, and I'd feel ridiculous in doing so while my first two degrees sit there gathering dust.

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