[hellofriends]

Hello friends!

I'm in a little bit of a situation right now.

I have decided to stop in my current education (technoanthropology, which is the study of relations between man and technology), and start another which I feel is something that I have a passion for (Bachelor in Social Education). I'm starting the new education in February 2014. I have three courses on my current education, and I have a semester project going with three other guys.

I want to finish the project because it's kind of exciting, but the courses bore the **** out of me. It's really, really tiny bits that are kind of close to exciting. I read what I need for the project but that's it. I really have no motivation to actually read for the courses and finishing them.

The problem is that my father tells me I should study and learn, but I just don't have any motivation. I have told my father that I'm switching to SC, but yet he keeps on telling me I should continue studying.. It's like he won't accept that I'm changing education.

My father also thinks technoanthropology is a really solid education (I agree though, it is!), but my mother is a child and youth worker, which is the same direction I want, and I worry that my father won't accept it because of that. Either because of economical reasons or for prestigious reasons.

He did told me that he support me no matter what, but I can't get over the fact that he's trying to get me back into technoanthropology..

[kaliope]

from what you have expressed, your dad is supportive of your choices, but by your own admission, you are unmotivated right now and your dad is seeing this and pushing you to do more. it may be helpful to assure him that you will be picking back up with your studies next year in your new subject.

[Perna]

Originally Posted by hellofriends

I really have no motivation to actually read for the courses and finishing them.

I am not clear if your father is just saying finish up the three courses in good standing before getting all excited about your new stuff in February or trying to get you to stay in technoanthropology.

I think you have to know that no courses are going to be exciting all the time. Even your new love will have courses you do not enjoy. But it is important, as your father says, to embrace whatever you are in/studying and do it as well as you can, not pick and choose, just doing the project and ignoring the courses, etc. All you "learn" from that is to not finish what you start! It sounds like this may not be the first time you have expressed an interest and then gotten bored with it and not finished it in good standing?

I would show your father you could do well in technoanthropology if that were where your heart lay but you prefer the other. Finish what you started in good form and then change and I bet he will have a response more in line with what you would like?