School

[spman 0]

Why am I doing this? I'm currently in my second semester of my first year of college, and I just can't stand being here. I was sitting in my three hour Lifespan Development class, and all I could thinka bout is how I had no idea what the professor was lecturing about, and not really caring either. My education is currently being paid for by my parents, so I feel I owe it to them to at least pass my classes, but it's not like I have a choice. They want me to go to school, and I can't even imagine what would happen if I told them I didn't want to go anymore, or that I was planning not to. Currently, on top of school, I work a nearly full time schedule at a movie theater, although last year I only brought in an income in the low 10,000's, this year with a promotion and a raise, I will likely end this year in the mid-20'000's. Quite frankly as pathetic and stupid as this sounds, I would be more then happy if this was what I did for the rest of my life. I'm going to school to become a teacher, but I don't want to teach, I don't know what I want to do as far as real viable careers go. Is this just a temporary feeling? Is there a point when a person just suddenly grows up and decides it's time to move on from your high school level job and go on to greater things? I can't afford to live without my parents at the moment, but I'm not happy with my current situation either. Should I just grit my teeth, finish school, and just move on from there? Is it true that if you skip a year of school, it's almost impossible to motivate yourself to return? What do you think?

[Guest hhheld_down]

Why am I doing this? I'm currently in my second semester of my first year of college, and I just can't stand being here. I was sitting in my three hour Lifespan Development class, and all I could thinka bout is how I had no idea what the professor was lecturing about, and not really caring either. My education is currently being paid for by my parents, so I feel I owe it to them to at least pass my classes, but it's not like I have a choice. They want me to go to school, and I can't even imagine what would happen if I told them I didn't want to go anymore, or that I was planning not to. Currently, on top of school, I work a nearly full time schedule at a movie theater, although last year I only brought in an income in the low 10,000's, this year with a promotion and a raise, I will likely end this year in the mid-20'000's. Quite frankly as pathetic and stupid as this sounds, I would be more then happy if this was what I did for the rest of my life. I'm going to school to become a teacher, but I don't want to teach, I don't know what I want to do as far as real viable careers go. Is this just a temporary feeling? Is there a point when a person just suddenly grows up and decides it's time to move on from your high school level job and go on to greater things? I can't afford to live without my parents at the moment, but I'm not happy with my current situation either. Should I just grit my teeth, finish school, and just move on from there? Is it true that if you skip a year of school, it's almost impossible to motivate yourself to return? What do you think?

im not sure what to tell you about the rest but as far as this "

Is it true that if you skip a year of school, it's almost impossible to motivate yourself to return?

" goes, yes. Just thinking about going back makes me uneasy. Luckily im too poor to go anyway.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

If you take a year off you won't be going back. I took time off to start my business and have yet to return and probably never will. It's better to just get it all over with as fast as possible.

 

But you aren't alone. The people that really enjoyed college are the ones that spent more time drinking than studying.

[spman 0]

But you aren't alone. The people that really enjoyed college are the ones that spent more time drinking than studying.

 

See, now this is the thing, I fall between the two categories of your average college student. I don't drink or party, it's just not my thing, but at the same time, I only do the bare minimum as far as academics go. I'm just more of a TV / Video Games kind of guy, which is probobly the worst type of personality to have at college, because there's really no reason for you to be there if you're not a socialite, and you're not a brain.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0]

But you aren't alone. The people that really enjoyed college are the ones that spent more time drinking than studying.

 

See, now this is the thing, I fall between the two categories of your average college student. I don't drink or party, it's just not my thing, but at the same time, I only do the bare minimum as far as academics go. I'm just more of a TV / Video Games kind of guy, which is probobly the worst type of personality to have at college, because there's really no reason for you to be there if you're not a socialite, and you're not a brain.

Ding, ding, ding...

 

You hit the nail on the head for me. The way I see it is that you have to surround yourself with people like that. I met someone at college with similiar intrests except he is a hardcore video game collector. Sometimes I get depressed when I hang out with him because he is so into it. I have other friends on campus mostly because of the clubs I am in. I could have had a girlfriend but over the years, I lost my backbone. Being picked on in junior high did not help my self confidence. I tried giving myself an identity in order for people to notice me. For the last two semesters, I have worn different hockey jerseys. (I wonder why girls have not swarmed to me?) It's my gimmick and I am sticking to it.

 

Anyway, the solutions to the problem are:

 

1) Join some sort of club(s)

2) Grow a backbone (I'm in this stage)

[Guest Brian]

If you do leave school, have a purpose behind it and set up a goal, don't just get out to get out. More often than not, you'll get stuck somewhere. I know plenty of people who, when when I was working grocery, left school or took time off and ended up as lifers. Well, except for the few that got caught stealing. Anyways, I think the best way to take time off, from people I've met, is to travel. I know a lot of people in the history division who took time off to travel, and it tends to work out more than the people I know that go to work. If you have the money to do it, it'll be refreshing and give you a fresh perspective, and it's fun.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

But you aren't alone. The people that really enjoyed college are the ones that spent more time drinking than studying.

Maybe the people that enjoyed a shitty college. Fuck, I love learning. Drinking too, but learning fantastic stuff is top-notch.

 

My thought is that you should finish school but not particularly worry about doing it for a specific career option. Take courses that interest you; if you don't want to be a teacher, don't train to be a teacher. Your parents are paying for it and want you to go, so you're not abusing their money (and certainly less so than training for something you don't want). College is not a purely vocational school unless you're specifically focusing on hard science. You'll learn how to write, think, and communicate better no matter what courses you're taking, and ultimately that's what you're going to need to get a job.

 

Also, possibly heavy lifting depending on the labor market, but you can work on that on your own.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

That's pretty normal. I hated college with a passion. I might've actually liked it less than high school in retrospect, and not because I was a wallflower or a tard, because I was neither. It was actually kind of refreshing to quit and get some random job, because I feel like Aristotle around those dumbfucks.

 

I doubt very seriously that I go back, and if I do, it will be a tech school where I can get something quick that pays better than what I do now. Academic masochists like Edwin have a lifetime of school loans to look forward to, unless of course he's got an affluent background. You like what you like.