Why Do I Do What I do?

[Ryan Naismith]

That’s a quite good question. I don’t do any of my homework, don’t pay ANY attention in class, and I often just say outright “Screw it.” Even though I know, am one hundred percent sure that It would be a thousand times better if I just buckled in and did the work that I’m supposed to. But I don’t. And really, I just forget about it, until it comes to a head (as in, getting grounded, getting yelled at, etc) so really, I’m hiding behind these things. And I know I shouldn’t. I’m %100 sure I shouldn’t. but I do. I KNOW I shouldn’t. and that, really, is the one thing I hate about myself. How **censor** lazy I can be.

[Teiko]

Probably because school is largely pointless and I know lots of millionaires who are highschool drop-outs.

[Dr. Alka Wolf]

Well... To be honest Teiko. You shouldn't drop out of school, and should keep with it. Push yourself. Lots of the worlds millionaires are high-school drop outs, but that doesn't mean lots of the worlds high-school drop outs are millionaires

[MrRazot]

I think about when I was in school and I think "damn I wish I'd worked harder"
The benefits are always invisible until you realise them.

[Teiko]

Well... To be honest Teiko. You shouldn't drop out of school, and should keep with it. Push yourself. Lots of the worlds millionaires are high-school drop outs, but that doesn't mean lots of the worlds high-school drop outs are millionaires

Well i mean i cant drop out... I need a degree for my career haha but i'm just saying that it works for other people... You know, who have talent. Unlike Teiko 

[LegitlyLeo]

Honestly im the same with my schoolwork, but if it really kills you to do it, you should just work hard as in other things that you may actually enjoy. For example some youtubers love playing games before youtube and that's all they did, they avoided all sorts of stuff! But they found out how to make money from what they love doing like when they discovered youtube and worked hard to make enjoyable videos and became partners with youtube.
You don't need school to be successful, just work hard to achieve your goals. School helps if you want to pursue a career that needs skills like math, science, language arts, etc.

[NautilusWolf]

I'm a world class bullsh!tter, and procrastinator. I have difficulty too, but what I find works is just gritting your teeth and doing it. It sucks like FU&K, but you gotta know what you want. Sacrifice your laziness for a future. I STILL suck at it, but I'm doing well enough. Maybe try that? Write it on tyour hand if you have to. Write, "I WILL FU&KING DO THIS FOR THE BETTER." It sucks. It does. But as my father says, "life's a big sh!t sandwich, and we all gotta take a bite," and "you only eat an elephant one bite at a time."

[Jane]

Maybe its boring to you, to put it bluntly. Sometimes I have the same issue but I end up trying to do as much as I can . school can be pretty boring at times. I'd just try to do your best. It will benefit you later

[Kai]

It's been a while since this topic was active BUT...

I dropped out of school when I was 15. I said I'd do my own homeschooling, but I had no intention of carrying out that plan and pretty much sat on my ass for a month or two until one day, with a little more liquor in my system than I should have had, I sat my ass down and wrote a 23 page essay on quantum entanglement. It took me a day and part of a night. By the end of the essay I was sober, and if you read it you can actually see that transition, which I find funny.
I was a weird kid, to say the least.
Long story short, I submitted that total POS, $200, and an application to CU Boulder. I got in, on their condition that I pass the ACTs first. I barely passed with an 18, most of that score coming from the Science Reasoning and Math sections.
(The takeaway here being that I learned next-to-nothing in school aside from what I'd taught myself.)

I did the whole thing on a whim, I'm now in my Senior year, (studying Computer Science, actually, not Physics,) and every time I think about it I'm very, very surprised that my life didn't totally crash and burn when I dropped out.

My point, ironically, is that what happened to me was a miracle.
People say, "I know plenty of people who are millionaires and dropped out of high school!", but those millionaires are a vast, vast minority.

This isn't to say "stay in traditional schooling, tough it out, life sucks and then you die." That isn't true either.
Look into homeschooling, look into online alternatives, split your classes up, (take 3-4 on campus and the rest online.) find what works for you, despite the system. There's more options than they let on.