AIBU to ask has anyone else had a 'I'm done' moment with education?

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I'm mid way through an MSc. I have a BA, and I moved on to the MSc straight after. I loved doing my BA and I did really well in it, I wanted (at the time) to do an MSc but the whole time I've been doing it I have really intensely disliked it. I find it utterly tedious and I dread having to do anything for it. I don't care about my grades at all. I barely tolerate the lectures and I really struggle to motivate myself to do the reading. I'm passing but not doing amazingly. It's not the subject that's the problem, it's in a very closely related field to my first degree, it's just that I feel so completely done with education. It's like a switch has been flicked and I just don't care anymore. My friend said she had exactly the same feelings, albeit at a different point in her education. I'm going to finish my MSc as I'm already one third of the way through, but I wonder has anyone else felt like this? Any tips on getting through it?

Plan for the future. Start looking for jobs. Identify what you dislike, start to narrow down choices. List the jobs you can do with a 1st, vs a pass etc. Treat it as a means to an end.

Hi CalcatrippticLego
I am looking for jobs, I'm looking to work part time during the last bit of my degree, and I had an interview last week so fingers crossed! It's impossible to pin down precisely what I don't like about it, because it really is absolutely everything, I just feel so done with it. It's not even as if I'm doing that badly, I've had two high merits and a low distinction so far. I am definitely treating it as a means to an end, just a bit fed up. Ah well, lectures finish at the end of April and final hand in is September so not too long.

I felt exactly like this at the end of my MA. Do what you’re doing - focus on work. I did internship after internship, and it kept me interested in the topic/industry and was great for my career (I was one of the only people on the course to get a good job in my industry). I scraped a pass, and in the five intervening years nobody has asked for my grade. But they’ve all fawned over the big names on my CV. Further study is less about academics and more about using the prgramme as a springboard, so focus on the future!

No not really, in that I have an MA and then did a postgrad diploma and am considering doing a PhD BUT there definitely came a point when the actual process of transferring ideas from books onto a page in my own words to prove I understood it became SO tedious and ridiculous.

That's when I cared less about the grades I got and just focussed on enjoying the subject. I'm fairly over essays by now.

Thanks all, keep them coming

Yes, right now, 2 days before my final deadline for my Teaching diploma!

And yy tygr.