It involves both luck and skill to end up in a job you like.
At the same time, even a job you like will have some things you don't want to do in it. (In a really lucky job, I'd peg the uninteresting stuff at 10% of your working time.)
We are working hard to get DS to do the school tasks that don't interest him, to make him capable of coping with that 10+ percent.
I've worked with people who can't cope with (or simply refuse to pay attention to) the boring parts of their jobs, and frankly, they make more work for the responsible ones in the office. No matter how gifted they are in other areas, I can't stand these people because they take up the time of their fellow workers by foisting tasks off on them. Interestingly, they are more often men than women; I think boys are allowed to get away with not learning to cope more than girls are.
I think there is some truth in the learning to cope argument; although if school is boring much of the time, obviously, a serious change must be made.
DeeDee
