Outside of school, which is one of my primary responsibilities, I have many other responsibilities as well. Although I am told that these are the glorious, carefree days of my youth and that I should be enjoying me freedom, I find that difficult to do with everything else that I need to do every day. When I think of the future, which will hold even more responsibilities, however, I guess these really are those carefree days.
My responsibilities outside of school are taking care of my apartment, work, paying my bills, and finding time for some enjoyment. Some of these are easy to categorize as extrinsic or intrinsic and some are a combination of the two, but somehow I need to find motivation to get them all accomplished. Taking care of my apartment includes both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. I get the intrinsic motivation from enjoying where I live, having the privacy I desire, having food to enjoy, and enjoying it when it is clean. The extrinsic factors of motivation are having to clean the apartment and cook and clean up after myself when I do eat.
Work and paying my bills are both extrinsically motivated as they are necessary for everything else in my life to take place except for the one intrinsic aspect of going to work, which is getting paid. I do not particularly enjoy my job, but it does feed my and pay the rent and the other bills. When I put in enough hours, there is even extra money left over for some fun, otherwise, I need to beg money from home, which I try not to do.
Enjoyment, my time for fun and relaxation, is an intrinsic reward, but one I know I deserve. I place a high importance on this time because there are not many hours devoted to it. It is my reward to myself for all of the work that I do at my job and in school.
