I remember taking my books in a bag into the woods , and doing my homework while watching for squirrels .
Also remember times that I hated homework.
But being a farm boy, school was a way out of work , even though I wasn't one to sit still very long.
I seemed to just not take to much seriously , even at times when I knew I should have.
Best time of my life ? Never really though about it much , but living as a hunting guide in Canada , was very enjoyable.
My kids were more joy than anything is my answer.

High school was a good time for me, but certainly not the best. All of my life has been good, of course with problems along the way. I pity folks whose life peaked in high school.

In my comments here, I never said I had a lot of free time.
However, I managed my time. I allocated specific time for each homework assignment or other project. No languishing with few results.
Learn to be self regulating and do the work without wasting time.
You have the same amount of time that I had in high school - 24 hours per day.

In high school I was in the honors program where the classes were advanced and a grade of “A” was 5.0 points. I never had a study hall or lunch break because I worked almost full time in the family trucking business. I did maintenance and other hard work.

I got up at 4:00 to study. Walked or rode bicycle to school which began at 7:45. Classes until 1:00 when I would leave to go to work. I worked until 7:00 or 8:00 when I would then study and then do some interesting project. During hunting and trapping season I cut back on work a little. Checked traps by walking in the morning and skinned in the evening. Not a huge trapline. As a junior, parents let me use a car to run a large driving trapline. The car had to be clean every day and no odors. Always kept up with school work.

I planned responsibilities, projects, and activities on paper for weekends and school vacations. All of my life I have had a to do list and other lists of priorities to keep me focused and productive. During school summer vacation I worked at least 40 hour weeks.

At age 15 I started an oil recycling business. I rode my bicycle to factories to negotiate deals for used hydraulic oil which I would have hauled away and recycled.

So, how good of a life do you want?
What are you going to do to be successful, fulfilled, satisfied, and happy with your life?

Sleeping to 6:30 may be a big part of the problem. During trapping season I got up at 4am every morning to run traps and be home by 6:30 to get ready for school. And here I am now, still getting up at 4 am, lol.

Why stop the learning and understanding all during your life?
Ya realize, it's those who don't to want to understand that toss the mud at those who continue to want to understand.

So be a learner and use what God gave you all your life.
A body, a mind, and a soul.

Who ever sold us - to stop learning - anyway?
Buncha hooey.

Blessings,
Mark

Pronoun Police?

Become all you can be HT?

Why the obsession with A’s?

My grades were C+ -B throughout school. My graduating class was given the “test to graduate” pre mandatory to graduate. 13 of us out of 80 passed it. lol There were several straight A students that didn’t pass.

You seem wound a bit tight. Let yourself “just be” a little.

I’m happier becoming who I’m supposed to be. My ship hasn’t come in yet but I can see it from shore. lol

Aren’t you the same 14yr old kid that has more traps than he can set? And blew up his truck motor and got a newer Z71? Sounds like you don’t need school and just continue your day job and trap. Seems you have it all figured out. And yeah, a rant is whining, which is quite typical of kids today.

.............Catfish

As yotetrapper said, this is your problem. I was in the same situation as you in high school. I woke up at 3:30AM to run my line and was always at school at 7 oclock on time. Heck, I even skinned my catch one day for our biology class. This was not a hundred years ago, this was 2016. After school I worked at a cabinet shop part time from 2:30 to 6:30 Mon-Fri. I would get home around 7 and then I would do my homework and eat dinner. 9 pm I was in the fur shed putting up fur. For awhile I put up coons for a local furbuyer in addition to my daily catch. I was only running a couple dozen traps here, don't think you are going to be longlining while doing something else full time. Usually I was in the bed about midnight and back up at 3 to do it all again. You are young and you can do it if you have the work ethic. Millionaires didn't make their millions sleeping 8 hours every night.

This goes back to my comment about working harder than those around you. If you are sleeping until 6:30 and complaining about not enough time in the day then there lies your problem. Good luck to you this season, I hope it works out for you

I hated school. Every single day of it. It was easy but just not for me.

I did not apply myself but was fortunately blessed with intelligence. In high school I was just plain done with it and never studied for tests or did homework, I just winged it. Got mostly Bs with a few As and Cs.

Went to college at 30 years of age and made the Dean's list every semester, got a 3.9 all the way through, because I actually tried.

Two of my kids were valedictorians, got straight As all the way through high school. They thought school was easy which I suppose it was for me too, but I just wanted to be outside.

People learn differently, the way school is set up and functions is great for some kinds of learners and not for others. All of my children homeschool. That gives them a lot of freedom to adapt learning styles. One grandson is going to sit in the ground blind with me next week while I try to fill a doe tag and he'll write a report on it. That's how school should work.

Absolutely hated every day! Quit to go to work and get married. Been working since 1959 to this day and I don’t regret one day of it!

Like the song goes” I did it my way”

When my sophomore English teacher scored homework with blue bird stickers did it for me, California school system!

School interfered with too much with more important stuff.
They weren't teaching me what I was wanting to learn.
Artsy fartsy stuff, literature, just a bunch of hogwash and daydreams written up by a bunch of loons and drug addicts.
I had a life to go after.
Good riddance !
O-Snap, I'm with ya ! Like the other song:
SCHOOLS OUT ... FOR-EVER ! (A. Cooper)

Can't help but to remember J. Clower.
They were teaching Roman numerals.
Jerry said, " I wasn't raised in ROME !"
Lotta waste in schools. and what the DO teach has a political agenda now.

I hated school, if I could go back in time I would of just dropped out. I like working and knew I didn't want to go to college, school was worthless for me.

Hated school. Hate football more. Played from 7 to 17. Had college scholarships offers. Didnt want them. Wanted to trap coyotes. So thats what I did. Brick Masonary Steel Plant RailRoad. All came second to coyote trapping. Fired from Railroad cause of coyote trapping. SO if you want to do something. Just do it

School was a safe place to be for us kids compared to our home, so I settled in and really enjoyed my school years, be they the 8 years in a one room, 4 in a high school with 170 kids or my years at a college with 30-40K.
Worked to make my own living and pay for my schooling since I was 14 and found time to get involved in several activities along with school and work. If one has trouble being able to find ways to get involved in multiple activities in the prime of one's life I doubt that it will get much easier as one ages and takes more forks in the road.

Bryce

Well said.Young folks need to put them electronical gadgets away and get outdoors.Got my boys hunting,trapping and fishing at a young age.If they weren't playing Hockey or Football,,they were in the woods.They have my Grandkids doing the same.

15yr old but yes. Also, it isn't quite a Z71 but yes also. I can't just quit school so I'm in it for the long run. You call it what you want and I'll call it what I want and we'll leave it at that.