Im doin exams now and really just not motivated or interested enough to do well. I know it will benefit me in the future and all of that, but I may have TOO much perspective on things, I always downgrade things and make them seem unimportant in the grand scheme of things. I am an average student, not basement low, not really high, prolly like a low B avg (using our scales).. Of course, I have potential that is untapped just like everyone else, but I don't want to use it, cuz i'd rather just play basketball or watch a movie or chat on the net (haha!) then study. I was thinking towards graduating though, I know I can pull an honors standing because that's just 70% + here to grad. with honours, and I'd have a degree.. but I was also wondering, how much do employers care about your Average (or is it GPA in America?) when hiring you.. Is it really of utter importance, or as long as you have a degree in some specialization you will be OK for getting a good job? (depending on market for jobs at that time)

 

I'm from the UK, so things may be different where you are, but I have never had to disclose the grade of my degree. All that the employers have ever been concerned about is whether you have the degree. Apart from that, whether you get the job or not is usually down to how you come across in the interview, or whether you are up against someone who has a better degree or post graduate qualifications.

I would say that WHERE the degree comes from matters, as in which university you went to, but the actual grade I don't think would ....

 

Unless your magma come lately or summo don't worry about it. I've heard of only one employer that wanted to see a transcript and I'd tell them to got to hell. If they're that untrusting then I can imagine what it must be like to work for them. They probably count your pencils at the end of the day.

 

the average matters to what the profession is..

 

I'm in the same boat as you. Every undergraduate major ir unmotivating and boring, and on top of that they add general education classes which is like torture. Then I realized I really enjoy law and want to go to law school and thats the ONLY thing thats motivating me to try to do well in undergrad.

Find something worth studying for, but in my opinion, unless you go to an Ivy league school prestiige is something that cant be a motivator if you go to a regular instituition because any idiot who does well in high school can get in. When times are tough I think about money.

 

Grades tend to matter the most with getting the first job straight out of college and much less after that. An employer will want to see you most recent performance, with a new graduate that would be grades, after that it would be job performance.

The best advice I can give is advice I did not follow myself......

Find something you love to do and do it well. If you are just chasing cash you willl NEVER be happy. Money will not matter that much. If you do something you hate, but it pays well, you will dread going in to work everyday for the next 30 years. I make decent cash but my job is boring.

I know a guy who is nearing 40, does not have two nickels to rub together and can fit everything he owns into a couple big boxes. But he has seen almost every corner of the world, lives in a different country teaching english as a second language every year and loves his life.

I personally can't live without roots and a retirement plan, but there are tradeoffs. Not everybody makes it doing what they want, but I admire the guys that try opening the small performance shop, the internet business selling a product they love, whatever. They may fail but probably have fun every day trying. I want a restaurant.......

End of rant. Stufy hard though, it will pay off more than ignoring your classwork.

 

Like the above posters mentioned, it really depends on what you are studying and what you are trying to get into... There are some professions where your GPA is everything, and then there are other areas of study like mine, where the place you went to school, if you went at all -- means nothing and depends entirely on your portfolio.

 

if i can start my life all over again, i'd study my ass off and go to top tier colleges and grad schools instead of second tiers

makes a world of difference in the US where you went to school.