Literal Inability to do Work Sooner than the Night Before it's Due

[MTUCache]

Welcome to the world of 90% of 2p2ers.

Smart kids, lots of common sense, plenty of book-smarts, but not willing to do more than they need to in order to get by.

This was me, as well as just about everybody else around here. Skated through highschool with a 3.5 GPA. Graduated from college with two degrees in five years, with honors, while barely doing any studying at all. Got a job that I can do while on the internet and screwing around all day, while getting paid a lot of money. Passed my professional engineering and professional surveying tests with almost no studying whatsoever... just couldn't be bothered.

So here I am... almost 30. Getting paid a pretty decent amount, but certainly not on the "fast track" that's full of kiss-azzes and over-achievers. I get by okay, not great. My condo is messy, I'm fat, and I'm not really all that happy with much of anything.

Find something to get passionate about. Something that you WANT to do. I'm serious here... otherwise you're going to end up in middle-management, smarter than everybody else but going no-where, and constantly regretting not spending your time doing something that excited you instead of just wasting it because you're too lazy.

I honestly think that I could be half as smart as I am right now, and further ahead, as long as I learned to apply myself and genuinely try at something. Instead I just float around thinking that I'm too good or too smart for everything and everyone. Not exactly what I imagined for myself ten years ago.