A few days ago
sapphire_wisdom

Please help?

My dream is to one day get in to the field of community services/health and social welfare. Right now I’m donig a BSc in Psychology – but I don’t find it very interesting (especially the counseling part – because I’m more of a out door sought of person). I want to help people with problems like food/shelter(poverty) etc.

And I REALLY NEED this degree to get in to a masters program in health and social development as I don’t have any other qualifications.

The problem is that I’m finding it hard to study psychology, when I know that I’m not gonig to be continuing it. I feel like, it will be a waste of time to study. But if I don’t study then I’ll be nowhere.

How do focus more on the present than on the future? How do I tell my self that this is important, although I’m not going to be doing it for the rest of my life?

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A few days ago
subsistcyber

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You said it yourself. This is a stepping stone that’ll help you get to where you want to be in the future. I know that taking psychology with nearly 100 other student in the class can get pretty boring, but I say look to the future. You have a great ambition that centers itself around helping others, so the sooner you get through this, the sooner you can start helping.
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A few days ago
The Answer
This is the method I use. It may or may not work for you. Give it a try.

I’m a pharmacy student and like you, sometimes I feel bored with the material. So what I do is imagine myself using this “boring” knowledge in a real life situation.

For ex: when I have to learn about the different doses of opioid analgesics (which is veryyyy boring), I imagine myself as a pharmacist in the ER. There’s a patient in great pain and the heath care team wants an answer from me as to which opiod to use and at what dose. And of course I have to get it right to save this patient!!!!!! What I do is make the situation more serious to tell myself that I’m not studying just to pass the test, I’m studying because people’s lives may depend on it.

Good luck!

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