Motivation
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How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? My current project involves writing data entry screens and updating database tables which is very dull and the code is very much the same apart from the input screens. There is no challenge to writing the code (which is when most errors slip in). How do you keep yourselves focused on getting the job done when the work isn't stimulating you? Michael :-)
My solution was to write a codegenerator for the normal (boring) screens & associated code. It was especially fun since I didn't tell anyone else and could then do more with less effort and have extra IE windows open to occupy my roving mind. ;P :omg: ;P Cheers, Simon X-5 452 rules.
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I have had the same problem! I end up working very slowly until I get near a deadline. Then, the sheer pressure of having to get the work done makes me do it!
:-) That's my current strategy. Michael :-)
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How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? My current project involves writing data entry screens and updating database tables which is very dull and the code is very much the same apart from the input screens. There is no challenge to writing the code (which is when most errors slip in). How do you keep yourselves focused on getting the job done when the work isn't stimulating you? Michael :-)
Michael P Butler wrote: How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? In your case I would either dawdle away my time on other things (like new tech, CP etc.) and then put my foot down when I realise I have just one day left to do 20 data capture pages, or I would create some kind of app which generates all those pages. I would spend 3/4 of the time on the app and then the rest actually doing the pages. Or I would, and woohoo I can do this now, stand up, walk over to our junior guy and give him the boring work to do. I may not even stand up. May just send him the files via email and say "figure out what you have to do, then do it." :-D But seriously, writing some code to auto-generate the forms would be my way of stimulating myself. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge Sonork ID: 100.9903 Stormfront
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How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? My current project involves writing data entry screens and updating database tables which is very dull and the code is very much the same apart from the input screens. There is no challenge to writing the code (which is when most errors slip in). How do you keep yourselves focused on getting the job done when the work isn't stimulating you? Michael :-)
Make it more challenging: try to write something that can automate the process (bearing in mind your timescales). This can have benefits too, because if it works you can show your boss and get some qudos. it will also make the same task easier in the future. Paresh Solanki You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead - Stan Laurel
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How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? My current project involves writing data entry screens and updating database tables which is very dull and the code is very much the same apart from the input screens. There is no challenge to writing the code (which is when most errors slip in). How do you keep yourselves focused on getting the job done when the work isn't stimulating you? Michael :-)
Michael P Butler wrote: There is no challenge to writing the code (which is when most errors slip in). How do you keep yourselves focused on getting the job done when the work isn't stimulating you? CPing :-D :-D :-D :-D Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
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How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? My current project involves writing data entry screens and updating database tables which is very dull and the code is very much the same apart from the input screens. There is no challenge to writing the code (which is when most errors slip in). How do you keep yourselves focused on getting the job done when the work isn't stimulating you? Michael :-)
Michael P Butler wrote: How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? Looking at my mortgage payments, my work contract, and the current job market is more than motivation enough for me. If the work isn't interesting, *make* it interesting.
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How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? My current project involves writing data entry screens and updating database tables which is very dull and the code is very much the same apart from the input screens. There is no challenge to writing the code (which is when most errors slip in). How do you keep yourselves focused on getting the job done when the work isn't stimulating you? Michael :-)
Michael P Butler wrote: How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? What usually happens to me is that I start cutting and pasting code, and then start having fun trying to hunt down bugs that have entered my program because I've been cutting and pasting code. That tends to add some variety to the task. - Jason Do you have a Pulse? SonorkID: 100.611 Jason
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Michael P Butler wrote: How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? What usually happens to me is that I start cutting and pasting code, and then start having fun trying to hunt down bugs that have entered my program because I've been cutting and pasting code. That tends to add some variety to the task. - Jason Do you have a Pulse? SonorkID: 100.611 Jason
I find Cut & Paste just as boring and demotivating as dull and repetitive Paresh Solanki You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead - Stan Laurel
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How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? My current project involves writing data entry screens and updating database tables which is very dull and the code is very much the same apart from the input screens. There is no challenge to writing the code (which is when most errors slip in). How do you keep yourselves focused on getting the job done when the work isn't stimulating you? Michael :-)
How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? I wonder if porn stars have this problem. :rolleyes: Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? My current project involves writing data entry screens and updating database tables which is very dull and the code is very much the same apart from the input screens. There is no challenge to writing the code (which is when most errors slip in). How do you keep yourselves focused on getting the job done when the work isn't stimulating you? Michael :-)
A really good way is to take a hour or so and go watch people move furniture, mow yards, sack groceries, sweep the front of a store, give oil changes, etc.. All for a lot less money than you are getting for writing that boring old code. That oughta give you a little incentive. Richard If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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How do you keep yourself motivated when the work you are doing is dull and repetitive? My current project involves writing data entry screens and updating database tables which is very dull and the code is very much the same apart from the input screens. There is no challenge to writing the code (which is when most errors slip in). How do you keep yourselves focused on getting the job done when the work isn't stimulating you? Michael :-)
An old saying goes - well not that old maybe: "Give a computer programmer 100 hours for doing an assignment, and he will use 99 hours building a tool, that will complete the assignment in 1 hour" ... and another 100 hours for debugging, the tool because it does not work as expected, you might add... But anyway, my point is, that you could make a tool, that would do the work for you - perhaps something that would generate data entry forms based on SQL statements into the database. Christian Skovdal Andersen Don't mention the war...