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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]

You can't get hired as a lawyer if you avoid taking the bar exam. Lawyers typically hardly use any of the content we learned during law school so having gotten As or no longer remembering any of it-neither impacts your day to day activities in a legal job. I found law school boring, had to retake the bar, and I'm now doing a legal job that doesn't take much advocating, negotiating, no trial work, no need to do biz dev, no need to bill in 6 min increments. It's not a paralegal job and you do have to analyze and write but frankly anyone, even without a JD, could do this after training. Such jobs exist. It's not great but an ok fringe legal job.[/quote]

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