How do you motivate yourself to work?

[BrightonRed]

There's such a vast difference between a teacher / lecturer that is still enthusiastic about his / her subject and is able pass that enthusiasm onto the students and a teacher / lecturer who has clearly had enough of educating but is just hanging in there because they know no other way.

There’s definite correlation between my grades throughout education and those teachers who inspired me to be interested in a subject. I enjoyed maths throughout school, got a good gcse, then got a shit teacher for A level and couldn’t be bothered with it at all.

I’m gutted now because the money’s in maths and I know I had the potential

Now I’m gonna be just another faceless Business graduate!
How do I motivate myself for that?

[Simon Pieman]

When I did GCSE I worked bloody hard and learnt everything properly. AS-Level (apart from the decision making paper) was pretty similar to GCSE. Moreover, I seem to get on fine with the other teacher, and grades for his half of the subject were encouraging. I guess the boring one demotivated me by his crap teaching!

[Simon Pieman]

I'm almost regretting not doing a maths degree. My A-Level tutor advised me to, but I couldn't be fucked to even do further maths

[Amir]

It's funny how something can be your favourite subject, only for a cockhead like him to screw it all up for you. To go from scraping an E to a B just shows what a motivational effect his comments had.

My predicted grades for A-Level were C/D/E for Business studies(you could put the highest on your UCAS form), D for English Language, And E for Geography if he pulls his finger out(they actually wrote that).  I got BCC in the end.

[BrightonRed]

I'm almost regretting not doing a maths degree. My A-Level tutor advised me to, but I couldn't be fucked to even do further maths

When I'd decided to quit my maths degree my tutors basically begged me not to drop-out. They couldn't understand my reasoning because i'd passed my first semester exams.
I was really enjoying it too, but one of my modules relied almost totally on my [non-existent] A level knowledge and I couldn't risk that ruining my whole degree in the later stages.
Tough decision, regretted to this day.

Might do something in maths through the OU now.

[Ben Wah Balls]

I know that feeling AK. When I started college I had these real old teacher for geography. He was crap at teaching. He was so boring - the type of fella that checks into a hotel and looks where all the fire exits are, instead of the bar. Anyway after getting a lowly 41% on the first mock test (also because I couldn't be arsed) I decided to work harder. Sure enough, I put in the work and I began to actually learn stuff! Next exam I got above 60%, so dead chuffed, like.

This teacher was a real arse. He sat down with everyone in the class (individually) and predicted them their grades. The fucker said I would be lucky to pass! He then asked me what I got for my GCSEs. He couldn't believe to hear that my A* was in Geography. Anyway, got to the exam did well, got a B overall. End of the year he told me I should carry on with the full A-Level, I said get knotted and I fucked off.

It's funny how something can be your favourite subject, only for a cockhead like him to screw it all up for you. To go from scraping an E to a B just shows what a motivational effect his comments had.

I got predicted an E at AS Human Geography, I got 100% on the exam.
The teacher was alright though and she was fucking fit, it's just I spent every lesson talking bollocks with my mate who was normally stoned and I never did any work. And we did what was supposed to be an important presentation about housing in the docklands on a scheme to build houses on 100m high platforms above a forest underneath. "Biomech: Houses Above Trees: It's not possible with todays materials but in 10 years time who knows?". I thought that was a great idea but my teacher didn't agree, although everyone else loved it. Anyway i digress, sorry.

Because of that though I liked geography as it was always a good laugh so it was the only subject I really paid any attention.

I normally stop listening after about 1 to 5 minutes or less in all lessons/lectures and I always have done. If anyone has any motivation tips to prevent that then please help me out but I think it might be ingrained in me now.

Matrices :|

[Rossi]

I would have thought that a fit teacher was a good thing to keep your attention focused on her

[Simon Pieman]

Nope because you won't listen to anything she's saying, that's why I know nothing for law  

[Ben Wah Balls]

I would have thought that a fit teacher was a good thing to keep your attention focused on her

Yes it was.

Because of that though I liked geography as it was always a good laugh so it was the only subject I really paid any attention.

[Reg Smeeton]

I had a rubbish teacher once for Biology.....it was a small group and teh science lab had solid benches with a well for two stools cut into it every so often.....I was the only lad in the group.....so used to sit with a bird, and took to a practical study of the female human anatomy.....nether regions....... to alleviate the tedium.

  The bird loved it.....wearing stockings and suspenders, despite the fact that tights were becoming all the rage at that time.......the teacher who was clueless and a spinster of the parish had no clue what we were up to......it was an odd set up because she was never a girlfriend or someone I spent any time with....just ships passing in the night.

  Think its where I got my first significant insight into girls periods.

 Got a crap grade though.