If you don’t know what you want to do yet, then ask your counselor for a career placement test. The type of test that gives you a list of jobs you maybe suited for based on your personality, strengths, etc…. Then take an lower level class in those fields which interest you. Even think about taking them in the summer at a community college to save money (CCs are normally a lot less expensive so trying out classes at one may be a better solution).

The long and short of it is, no one can make you like school, or motivate you to continue your education. I put it off. After high school I went and got married, and had a different life while all my friends were off at college. I thought they were just wasting their time. Now over 6 years after I graduated high school I’m back in school, though its hard at time to be motivated I know that doing these things for myself and my future. You have to do it for yourself and your future, but we cant motivate you to do it, you have to do that.

You don’t understand the purpose of those other classes which we all had to take to get our degrees. Without those other classes, you’re not a well rounded person who can talk on a variety of subjects with intelligence. Also, many of us change professions later in life, and you won’t be as capable of doing so without the well rounded education that you consider GE classes just there to steal your $$.

The only true incentive for you has to come from within. External incentives really don’t work. Needing to put food on the table is incentive enough for most of us. Only YOU know what will motivate you. We can give you all sorts of suggestions, but you can easily shoot them all down if you wish to have all our ideas fail.

My best suggestion is to find what subject excites you and use THAT as your motivation. The other classes are to make you a more desirable employee. The best employee is the one who is not only good at their job, BUT ALSO:

– a good self starter

– a good self-motivator

– has a good work ethic

– is a fast learner of new aspects of the job

– can talk intelligently on a variety of subjects with customers who come from a wide variety of backgrounds

– can interact well with other employees who have a variety of interests… work conversation is stale if only work is what one can talk about…

– can interact well with supervisory personnel. This includes being able to converse with them on things other than just work. The kind of person will advance and be able to manage other workers under hiim.

If achieving those attributes are not enough for you to motivate yourself, then maybe you want to fail. Only you know the answer to that question.

But I find it helps if I pretent I’m endlessly fasinated by what I’m learning, and regularly spout the shite off to anyone who’ll listen, sometimes I even convince myself I care! Like “Did you know all our food is make up off carbon, hydrogen and oxygen! I never knew that before! Isn’t that just so cool!!!”

Just don’t do it to your friends, you’ll only piss them off! Parents love that sort of crap though…