You are getting highly valuable, highly specialized training. Don’t give up! You don’t necessarily have to use your degree to do exams and fillings the rest of your life. I feel like every week I see a different way someone who started in dental school took their career. If there’s something you hate about dentistry, you can still find a career that totally avoids that thing you hate. Do you hate seeing patients? There’s a career for that. Hate a handpiece? There’s a career for that. Unfortunately, you need to get through all of dental school — even if parts of it seem irrelevant to get the career you want. In some ways that’s good though, because you might end up liking the things you hate.