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Staying Motivated in School (pg. 5)
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| Mrjive is right. I asked myself the same question. Turns out I want a business in the technical sector. anything from software design to engineering of novel technology. So I closed my eyes and pointed at a sheet of tough technical degrees. I landed on chemistry. |
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| eROs.au |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Well, the first question to ask yourself is: "What kind of business do I want to own?"
Seriously, ask yourself definite questions like that one, all the time, and really try hard to answer them honestly. Define the goal, and then lay out the steps to get to that goal. If you have no idea what the steps are, then find someone who has achieved a goal like yours and ask them how they did it.
Don't assume that your priorities will coalesce together of their own accord and present themselves to you as a life plan. You have to do the work. All of it.
Either you will set your life in order and decide where you want to take it, or the exigencies caused by your own failure and lack of direction will drag you along kicking and screaming, and you may end up hating the places they take you.
I learned that far too late. So you have a head start on me and all the idiots like me. :clown: |
I think I have a good plan. This whole life thing is intimidating though. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
When I was younger, I strongly believed that everything would turn out OK for me as I got older. I believed that I'd be a talented, accomplished adult at 18 and I'd be on my own. I believed this with almost religious conviction and you couldn't convince me otherwise. Everyone told me I was intelligent. My friends, teachers, and my mother always told me that they thought I'd be successful and that I was so smart. |
This is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about when I mentioned the idea that things would somehow "coalesce" and a life plan would be laid out in front of you. I thought pretty much the same thing you did.
But what happened with me soon after that is that I had the idea that "success" meant "selling out."
I think that a lot of wanna-be intellectual types like me tend to have a strong negative reaction to the idea of being useful to other people. They want to live so that they can have the constant masturbatory pleasure of shifting around different ideas in their brains. There are the odd few evangelists among them who genuinely do want to spread their ideas, but most of the cogitators only spew forth papers and books because you have to make some kind of "product" or other if you want to pay the bills, and also partly because it gratifies them to give other people the written form of a slap across the face. Breaks up the boredom.
As I neared the end of high school, my parents got across the idea to me that sooner or later I would have to "make myself useful." Sooner or later, I could no longer do just the things that pleased me and me alone. I would eventually have to do something that other people were willing to pay for.
Oh, the horror! Right? |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by eROs.au
I do pretty good in school, despite my lack of real work. I am a senior. I have good scores on the SAT and the ACT. I've always planned to go to college. It seemed like the natural course of things. In the past week, I've started seriously considering not going at all. There's a social stigma attached not to go to college around me, but I can shake the feeling that I will be wasting my time. My career goal is to own my own business. I'm not sure how a 4-year degree would help me out there. I'm confused about what to do. |
It would depend on what kind of business you want to do. Whatever you do, 4 years of rigerous technical education can only add value to your business plan. you will get to know your products better. Everything finally comes down to business. Be an engineer, and you do business with products that require engineering knowledge. Dairy industry, and you are dealing with the technicalities of milk production, large scale manufacturing, preservation etc. Otherwise, you can simply get into a business management program and hone your business skills. It is my opinion that in today's world, you need formal education if you want to be successful. Self made, school dropout millionaires are rare and exceptions, not the norm. |
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| Allied Nations |
I stay on track by staying busy all the time...
I work on the weekends, party after work, and take a full course load during the week. I usually do everything last minute, but I also half plan to do it last minute so it works out. When I'm not studying, partying or working, I'm working on music, finding songs, producing, etc. Luckily a lot of what I study (new media + fine arts) coincides with my audio endeavors but I'm still in a marketing and french class which are completely unrelated.
The most interesting creative things seem to happen when I'm at full capacity and progress comes in waves. In any case I highly reccomend bucking up and getting what you need to get done done, and then finding something you actually like doing.
PS: I never stop. lol. |
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| eROs.au |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
It would depend on what kind of business you want to do. Whatever you do, 4 years of rigerous technical education can only add value to your business plan. you will get to know your products better. Everything finally comes down to business. Be an engineer, and you do business with products that require engineering knowledge. Dairy industry, and you are dealing with the technicalities of milk production, large scale manufacturing, preservation etc. Otherwise, you can simply get into a business management program and hone your business skills. It is my opinion that in today's world, you need formal education if you want to be successful. Self made, school dropout millionaires are rare and exceptions, not the norm. |
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| D-res |
| quote: | Originally posted by ballmouse
Wait until you get into writing out net ionic equations from word problems (the ones that are ridiculous and the teacher does not explain them at all). |
Thats what we were doing a week or two ago. Maybe not huge problems, as I don't know at what level you were doing them. |
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| CONNERMAN2000 |
didnt read the last few posts, so sorry if repeating...
during school I've noticed that weekly schedule routines become overly mundane since you are so used to doing the same things over and over. class here, class there, paper to write here, test to study for over there...this can commonly cause a lack of focus since it almost seems like life is a repeating record. Do something random and out of the ordinary, like take a road trip over the weekend, or maybe go to a party hosted by somebody you barely know, and it might help more than you think. |
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| Internet TufGai |
| I hate paying for classes I don't need and books I don't want. It's total bull. This is a reason why I hate school, and can't stay motivated. They seem to want to make us "intellectually enlightened." Which I think is bull crap. Schools just want my money. I don't need to know psychology to do accounting. Screw GE classes. |
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| Spacey Orange |
| quote: | Originally posted by Internet TufGai
Schools just want my money. I don't need to know psychology to do accounting. Screw GE classes. |
you're right, you don't need a psychology course to do an accounting, but it may help you be an outstanding accountant. see the difference? |
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| Spacey Orange |
| quote: | Originally posted by eROs.au
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turn that frown upside down. don't pay attention to what you quoted, that's bad advice. |
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| eROs.au |
omega or spacey orange
who to believe! :p |
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