Yeah, it has helped in basically every aspect of business ownership. Contracts, employment law, tax law, corporation creation, intellectual property protection, etc. I use my skills (which often just means being able to confidently research the answer) all the time, just not in the way I was expecting / expected to.
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Very true. I have a pretty good board contract, though I say it myself 
The child who brought me to these forums is the driven one, but she is actually the youngest.
I wasnāt deep-diving into college searches for the older one because he was headed straight down the āType Bā fairway to a state school.
It was always a struggle to light a fire under him and sometimes we wanted to pull our hair out because of frustration with his lack of ambition.
BUT! We also envy him his less-anxiety-prone temperament and wonder if he isnāt the smartest of us all many days.
He is doing GREAT. He never got straight Aās, but he still got a well-paying post-grad job. He loves his colleagues and he is getting plum assignments. He says itās because he is personable and always available for lunch when many of his more Type-A peers are not.
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I am one of the few attorneys I know who loved law school and whose work is very close to the same as what we learned in law school. I research and write ONLY so lots of issue spotting and analysis.
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The now-infamous Donāt Be A Lawyer song on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend really nailed this effect!
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I never heard this before but it totally makes sense. The smartest people I knew from law school and early firm life generally hated the practice of law and most have left the law or are no longer at Big Law. Fortunately for me, Iām of average lawyer intelligence so was able to stick with it and it continues to pay the bills. Given my parents had blue collar jobs they didnāt like, I never tried to find meaning in my work.
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Iām the exact opposite.
I hated law school, became an attorney and didnāt want to be a real world lawyer either.
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Please move on from discussions about law school and bar dues since itās off topic. Thank you!
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āInternal driveā can be a lot of things, and not all of them are good or healthy.
Being very competitive and being a perfectionist both come with a lot of other baggage. The former can alter how you see and relate to others while the latter can cause anxiety and result in misplaced priorities.
At the same time, your D should understand that if she can do better and chooses not to do so, it could have an impact on the options available to her when she applies to college ā whether in acceptances, scholarships, or eligibility for certain programs. You can let her know that your concern if for her not to have regrets.
Years ago, when I was a first year student at a top grad school, and everyone was trying to figure out how much more work they would need to do to get the top grade (very rare owingto the curve), a friend asked āhow much less can I do and still get the next grade down?ā Although that was so contrary to who most of us were, it really was a great question.
Really, itās okay for your D to set her own priorities and boundaries. She should, however, be intentional about them, have sound reasoning for them, and understand what the consequence of her choices may be.
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