I feel like Academic education is complicated, challenging and underwhelming/unproductive in practice (when it comes to real world application) {Especially when it comes down to skills you can acquire on your own, defeats the whole purpose of the thing and seems more like you struggle with motivating yourself which is the first sign it might not be for you in the first place. I guess medicine(and somewhat law), are the only exceptions to the rule since it's hard to get the knowledge and practice on your own, but more so with medicine. I've noticed that most things are not impossible to acquire on your own, in the age of the internet that is}