Published on 12, July, 2020
Just curious about people who slipped through the net, so to speak. How did you cope with school? I developed quite good ways of hiding how much i struggled. It helped that i was in most of the bottom sets, as no one really cared back then. I was in the top set for biology, i excelled in that area. Nothing else part from sport. I hated going in every day, i was like a zombie....i literally cant remember my last year in school. Ive blanked it out completely.
Was writing a much longer response covering whole of academic life, but lost it when the site safety certificate for forum ran out... pfft
Generally, middle level grades till uni, a few specialisms in business, accounting and economics, but "persuaded" to follow a more specialist career route into spirometry surveying, by a father who was a property surveyor. I'd much prefer to have dome business, but there you go..
Dont lack the intelligence at all, but I put it down as: enough intelligence to rule the world, but unless a special interest, only the effort to get.
Highlights:
Primary:
- created dinosaur wordsearches for kindergartens kids... yep, never realised they couldn't read in first place
- wrote illustrated short stories
- one teacher told parents I was: bright but preferred to count pencils or look out the window.
- wrote letters to (bearing in mind these are all at primary school... and I now hate the tories): John Major (yes that one, I was about 6yrs old!!), the Queen, Noel Edmunds... all responded although with Queen it was her secretary.
- also wrote to banks to fundraise for school garden, the school wasn't aware till I handed over cash...
- argued with one headmistress to use photocopier to duplicate my first (and the last) primary school newspaper... it was actually 1/3 cartoon propaganda on speed limits fml...
- wrote a poem, The Apple Tree and Golden Bee. I sent to blue Peter, it was read out and I I a badge, this then went into an "everything 50p" tub at a car boot sale...
Tbh there *** loads more stupid stuff, but last post ended up very long.
On the intellect, rather than general precociousness... I started retraining in bookkeeping. Every exam I walked out in under 30 mins, they were meant to be an hour... passed the whole lot with a merit...
Tell a lie. One was about 45mins as had to teach myself how to use accounting software for the first 20mins... I had gone in knowing I'd need to... I think I was generally considered at the exam centre as a total a-hole...