Does work give you great pleasure?
I mean _pleasure_. Like some people enjoy swimming with dolphins, skiing down a slope, visiting a new place, opening a window into a pleasant breeze, rampages in dota, getting higher than the empire state, murdering other people, etc. For me, a movie/experience that makes me cry == work. Does work feel great? Great sometimes? Comment the situations that you enjoy. What gives you flow state pleasure? No popcorn on this one folks - if you're a student/NEET/w.e. tell me what watching YouTube all day feels like #burnout #mentalhealth #work
Sex gives me pleasure
Deliberately excluded that one, that and heroin probably can't be competed with
The calling folks will never be on Blind.
They'll be on blind at 10pm, talking about how great working is
The coding part yes but everything else
I have the fattest chub after I commit my changes and submit a PR Nobody knows tho, cuz wfh ;)
I am thankful that we don’t have as many mindless meetings everyday, so it’s relatively quicker to be in the flow state. Individually for me, I get pleasure from solving some messy, complex issues - the sense of accomplishment feels great knowing I solved something and learned something interesting. It’s even more exciting when you have coworkers who think alike and you jam together on stuff - best feeling ever! I walk, think of solutions before bed, and it’s super exciting. Where it hits the fan is I/We take the solution and some random stakeholder instead of giving useful feedback or critical reasoning (an opportunity where we both can learn) shoots it down. The moments where my idea gets shot down due to genuine reasons (which I honestly crave a lot) is a lot lower than it getting shot down because of some bureaucratic, stuck-up process. So I like to say, I like the beach life! Ride the waves where it makes me happy, go to the coasts when stuck-up processes make me sad, keeps the sanity, keeps the freshness alive!
The work would be great if some of the people weren't assholes
I learned a long time ago that working on what you love to do (calling/passion drives work) is vastly different from loving the work that you do (developing passion from work) Unfortunately OP you don’t have this in your poll
In my experience all the passions essentially go away. "Loving the work that you do" is internally controlled
Thanks for highlighting the difference in what I wrote. In the first case where people believe it’s their calling or passion that drives them to work.. that fades away. The second where you build up passion in what you do, whatever it is that you do… it grows. Im not certain that it is fully internally controlled, it might feel that way but I don’t know
I like money though
YEAH! The fucking thrill of seeing the number go up! Also deliberately excluding that one, it's like... too similar to work