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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Maybe I'm just dumb, but I have a hard time understanding really boring, complicated material, which made up most of my legal studies.

I'm a lawyer who sort of likes things that are boring and complicated, but I don't think it is reasonable to characterize all law as consisting of such matters. There are lots of practice areas (family law etc.) that are more interesting and understandable, if less lucrative.

OP here. Thanks for your insight about this. Am I just dumb? I graduated with honors from high school and went to an Ivy League college and graduated with honors from there. But honestly I have an incredibly difficult time understanding things that are boring and complicated. What do you like about boring or complicated things? I can't concentrate and zone out when I am reading such things. For instance, health insurance. I cannot seem to understand my health insurance policy or how the benefits work, and whenever I call the health insurance company to ask a question I don't understand what they are telling me. So my husband handles this. Investments are another area that I don't understand, and I also find it boring and complicated. I'm a fully functioning person otherwise, but boring or complicated things are very hard for me to understand. Do I have some sort of learning disability?

FWIW, I took organic chemistry in college and got an A, so I am capable of understanding some boring and complicated material.
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Please stop asking if you are dumb because I'm tempted to say YES, you are dumb, but not for the reasons you think.

The thing that makes you dumb is not that you don't understand certain things, it's that you make excuses for what you don't understand by calling those things complicated and boring. Seriously, you sound like an entitled whiner who had every opportunity to pursue whatever you wanted to, parroted what was expected of you, and then rejected the skills and experiences you had the luxury of gaining because you found it all so boring and complicated. You sound lazy. Very, very lazy.

That's what you sound like. That might not be who you are. You may be depressed and overwhelmed and without guidance. You may be realizing that career success, or any success, doesn't depend on checking off an A in a class.

So, what now?

You will only be successful at something you really care about and something you are willing to put your mind to. You mention being attracted to geriatric case management. Do this. Put all your effort into doing this. You have the credentials, but more importantly, you have the interest and drive for this work.

Do this and stop whining about complicated and boring stuff. It's only boring and complicated because you don't value it. If you don't value it, you don't deserve to work in it.

I'm sorry, sort of, for the tough talk. I do really hope you find work you want to do.[/quote]

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