Motivation
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Does anybody else have those days where you lack any and all motivation to do anything productive? Or feel like you don't have any direction in which to work? If so, what helps? No matter how hard I try, I can't come up with the motivation to keep working...
I just get up and take a walk. Not the kind where you stop to chat; I head out the building and walk about a half mile. Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that? - Jack Burton
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
But does that mean he would be more like me, or I would be more like him?
Um... arm wrestle for it. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Um... arm wrestle for it.
hmmmm... but what if his wife beats me at arm wrestling? or his children?? :~ although... the legos sound like fun! :cool: I don't think they would turn me away if I showed up with ALL the lego kits.... _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Does anybody else have those days where you lack any and all motivation to do anything productive? Or feel like you don't have any direction in which to work? If so, what helps? No matter how hard I try, I can't come up with the motivation to keep working...
FlamTaps wrote:
Does anybody else have those days where you lack any and all motivation to do anything productive? Or feel like you don't have any direction in which to work?
I grab any movie heavy in computer generated effects. I think to myself... can I do that? and I do so. It is why I have a particle engine based on mass of objects ... hmmm... hitting each other :rolleyes: and various other things. A customer needed stage drop off animation, so I watched Apollo 13 again.... hmmm... speaking of which... we have an apollo like launch station to build... now where is that tape filed? :-> _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Um... arm wrestle for it.
hmmmm... but what if his wife beats me at arm wrestling? or his children?? :~ although... the legos sound like fun! :cool: I don't think they would turn me away if I showed up with ALL the lego kits.... _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
I don't think they would turn me away if I showed up with ALL the lego kits....
You've got to go for meccanno instead :) More fun and doesn't break apart when they hit the wall...
Bob X wrote:
You've got to go for meccanno instead
ahhhh, but I know they have legos.... plus if games or anything starts being thrown at walls... too reminiscent of my family, I'd be hitting the road and playing hermit again. It is one of several easy ways of getting rid of me. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Bob X wrote:
You've got to go for meccanno instead
ahhhh, but I know they have legos.... plus if games or anything starts being thrown at walls... too reminiscent of my family, I'd be hitting the road and playing hermit again. It is one of several easy ways of getting rid of me. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
plus if games or anything starts being thrown at walls...
:-D
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
too reminiscent of my family
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
I'd be hitting the road and playing hermit again. It is one of several easy ways of getting rid of me.
:confused:
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
plus if games or anything starts being thrown at walls...
:-D
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
too reminiscent of my family
:(
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
I'd be hitting the road and playing hermit again. It is one of several easy ways of getting rid of me.
:confused:
Bob X wrote:
:confused:
a long story... not meant for a motivation subject thread. Although it was motivation to live alone. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Does anybody else have those days where you lack any and all motivation to do anything productive? Or feel like you don't have any direction in which to work? If so, what helps? No matter how hard I try, I can't come up with the motivation to keep working...
FlamTaps wrote:
Does anybody else have those days where you lack any and all motivation to do anything productive?
Depends on how you define productive. If you define it too strictly, you will need more motivation.
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Do you still work there ? If so, I'm wondering how they reacted to your being an MVP ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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Matt Philmon wrote:
Laziness: Uh... if someone figures this one out let me know.
Start hanging around people and/or making friends with the type of person you want to be. Pretty soon it'll start rubbing off on you. Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Start hanging around people and/or making friends with the type of person you want to be
ahh hell back to the strippers then Bryce --- To paraphrase Fred Dagg - the views expressed in this post are bloody good ones. --
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
Too bad that doesn't mean a bloody thing now-a-days
True, unfortunately. I look at it as a last-ditch sort of preventative measure. If they're looking to trim staff, I'm hoping they'll keep me around simply because I'm the only one who knows how all the crap jobs work :rolleyes:.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
If they're looking to trim staff, I'm hoping they'll keep me around simply because I'm the only one who knows how all the crap jobs work
To bad that doesn’t count, the only thing that seems to count is how dirty your nose is. :~
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Does anybody else have those days where you lack any and all motivation to do anything productive? Or feel like you don't have any direction in which to work? If so, what helps? No matter how hard I try, I can't come up with the motivation to keep working...
Frequently these days. The trouble is when it starts to go into weeks of endless drudgery, tedium and boredom. I often sack the work I am supposed to be doing (I'll have another go tomorrow) and try to investigate something different that is of interest to me but still loosely related to work, just in case a manager has a "Dilbert-boss" moment and decides to come out of their glass office and "rally the troops" and feign interest as to how the staff are doing. I am quite surprised that I managed to maintian enough interest to finish this message off :) I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
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Does anybody else have those days where you lack any and all motivation to do anything productive? Or feel like you don't have any direction in which to work? If so, what helps? No matter how hard I try, I can't come up with the motivation to keep working...
I tend to do something completely different and try not to waste the day by battering my head against the task. If I am lacking code motivation I'll pick up some graphic design work or fire up Word and get some market research done. regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
-- modified at 4:38 Tuesday 20th June, 2006
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Does anybody else have those days where you lack any and all motivation to do anything productive? Or feel like you don't have any direction in which to work? If so, what helps? No matter how hard I try, I can't come up with the motivation to keep working...
Getting out helps for me. Another environment and I get new ideas to work one. My parents have this chalet an hour away from where I live and it's a quiet place to be, gives you new motivation to get on with your work. WM.
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Matt Philmon wrote:
Laziness: Uh... if someone figures this one out let me know.
Start hanging around people and/or making friends with the type of person you want to be. Pretty soon it'll start rubbing off on you. Jeremy Falcon
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Do you still work there ? If so, I'm wondering how they reacted to your being an MVP ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Nope. I got really screwed by a large automotive manufacturer and the contract house I was working for in my last job, before I became an MVP. I was excelling at my job, coming up with better procedures, policies, standards, exception technical work, a team lead many times, technical lead, mentor, ... yada, yada, yada, ... getting fantastic reviews -- and was handed a massive paycut for my efforts, just before I closed on my first house. I was knocked back to what I was making back in 2000, and really have had a raise since. The job I'm currently in, pulled some "bait and switch" tactics to get me in here 2 years ago. They also have been loving the work I do, but the raise I got didn't even cover the rise in gas prices over the time I've been here. I can no longer afford to get to work some 60 miles away, soooo, off to Monster/CareerBuilder/Dice I go, looking for a new one. My last 5 jobs have been like this. I'm so tired of killing myself turning in fantasic work and getting the reviews for it and getting shafted in the paycheck. Oh, that paycut from the automotive manufacturer -- about 6 months after all the contractors were screwed, the executives at both companies, client and contract house, gave themselves raises that far exceeded the savings they got by cutting our paychecks. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Do you still work there ? If so, I'm wondering how they reacted to your being an MVP ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Oh! And the MVP? They don't care. It apparently has nothing to do with my job that I'm a mentor in the community. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
If they're looking to trim staff, I'm hoping they'll keep me around simply because I'm the only one who knows how all the crap jobs work
To bad that doesn’t count, the only thing that seems to count is how dirty your nose is. :~
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
S Douglas wrote:
the only thing that seems to count is how dirty your nose is
Oh God, you have no idea how true that is in the automotive industry. I want to puke just thinking about it. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Nope. I got really screwed by a large automotive manufacturer and the contract house I was working for in my last job, before I became an MVP. I was excelling at my job, coming up with better procedures, policies, standards, exception technical work, a team lead many times, technical lead, mentor, ... yada, yada, yada, ... getting fantastic reviews -- and was handed a massive paycut for my efforts, just before I closed on my first house. I was knocked back to what I was making back in 2000, and really have had a raise since. The job I'm currently in, pulled some "bait and switch" tactics to get me in here 2 years ago. They also have been loving the work I do, but the raise I got didn't even cover the rise in gas prices over the time I've been here. I can no longer afford to get to work some 60 miles away, soooo, off to Monster/CareerBuilder/Dice I go, looking for a new one. My last 5 jobs have been like this. I'm so tired of killing myself turning in fantasic work and getting the reviews for it and getting shafted in the paycheck. Oh, that paycut from the automotive manufacturer -- about 6 months after all the contractors were screwed, the executives at both companies, client and contract house, gave themselves raises that far exceeded the savings they got by cutting our paychecks. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
Have you thought about taking on your own clients ? Or you can do what I did ( find a job that's offering more money and let your boss know that it's on the table ). Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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S Douglas wrote:
the only thing that seems to count is how dirty your nose is
Oh God, you have no idea how true that is in the automotive industry. I want to puke just thinking about it. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
Oh God, you have no idea how true that is in the automotive industry.
Oh, it's more than just the automotive industry. I have seen things that left me openly cusing and swearing... X|
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley: