So this semester is winding down, and school is starting to wear on me again. I’m starting to give less and less of a shit. Luckily I don’t have anything til next friday and then I’ve got a few days of finals and I’m done. Then it’s Christmas. Unfortunately it’ll be right back to it after that. So today I started thinking of reasons to re-motivate myself.
The thing that prompted this train of thought was the realization that I’ll be making close to 60 grand about a year from now. That’s big, because I’ve had money issues basically all of college, and they’re REAL bad right now, although only for a week or so more I hope. Obviously it sucks I’m not graduating in May, because then I’d be only a few months from making that kind of dough. It’s all good though. This way I get the opportunity to do an internship and hopefully pass more exams, both of which will increase the amount of money I’m making when I do graduate finally. But the fact that it’s only one more year of money issues really makes me excited, and definitely adds motivation to try the rest of the way.
Another thing I like to do for motivation is to wander around Best Buy for awhile. I don’t buy anything. I just look. I check out all the ridiculously sweet shit that I’ll be able to afford when I finish this degree. Obviously I won’t be making enough to be stupid, otherwise I’ll be stuck in the same money issues I’m in now, but with sweet stuff. But the point is that in a few years, if I want something sweet, there’s nothing there I won’t be able to afford. That sounds pretty freakin awesome to me.
One more thing I like to do for motivation is to go to the opposite extreme. I go wander around a Wal-Mart. Rather than looking at products this time, I watch the people. Wal-Mart is a place that you’ll find some of the strangest, and often most down and out people around. The checkers are often the most fun to watch. The amount of crazy people wandering around. That is pretty good motivation to finish college. Not that I’ve ever realistically considered quitting, but it’s crossed my mind. If you drop out, you end up working at Wal-Mart. That’s easy motivation.
Lastly, and this one is usually on accident, I get some pretty good motivation by going back to York for a few days. After a couple days of living small-town, Nebraska life, and interacting with its small-minded citizens, I’m good to go. I sit and think about how everyone of them has been there their whole lives, and every day is basically the same. A lot of hard work, little fun, and less culture. You can throw some church, hunting, and minority hating in there too. That definitely gives me the drive to get a job that will take me out of this place and to somewhere new and exciting. Maybe I’ll eventually want to come back when I’m older-York is a pretty good place to raise a family-but for now I want to be long gone.
