You're a high school student who doesn't feel much like playing your instrument during a lesson. How do you minimize the amount of time you have to play any music that day? You could try the approach a student took with me during college. At the start of the bass lesson, he told me he had a dilemma. He said he knew someone who could teach him to make clay bells for a living and that he was considering not going past high school and just making clay bells for the rest of his life.
I told him his story sounded awfully far-fetched, but if it was true, it was too risky to just push school aside and concentrate only on one limited skill for the rest of his life. He'd play the bass for a little while but then would circle back to his supposed dilemma. I told him he'd be well-advised to continue in school and make clay bells for a hobby or as a side job.
Technically, I don't know that the clay bells job offer was a fabrication. Realistically, however...
To his credit, he didn't bring up the clay bells scenario at any other lesson.
