How are people finding the motivation to work everyday
Almost 11 years of work experience part in India and part in US. I have been with Amazon as L5 SDE( joined as L5 only) for almost 4.5 years now. I keep on hovering between hve 3 and hve 2 every year and keep getting blocked for promo. Lately I have been finding very hard to find any motivation to work or even be enthusiastic about it. There are few days where I will be super productive and then some days when I just stare at screen but later frequency have increased over last year. I see people in my team always excited and motivated to work and I question where is this motivation coming from? Does anyone else feel the same? TC - 305k
I have a family to support so that’s my motivation
Money.
I have to drag myself to the keyboard and hope no one asks a probing question during standup. The job is a big drag.
The secret is to work as few days a week as you can.
Mortgage payments. Also I enjoy the work I do; it's both fulfilling and fun. I have a great relationship with my team/manager so working feels more like solving puzzles with friends. For now, that is. Starting to detach since layoffs could just rip everything away from me. Tryna just view it as a job so I'm not emotionally distraught when Sundar drops the axe.
Whenever I look at my kids growing up, I swear to myself that I will do whatever it takes so that they don't end up being an average engineer like me. That means many things, one of which is to accumulate enough capital so they can experiment with interesting career paths and have an option to fall back to if they fail. So, I do whatever the fuck it takes. That's my motivation.
An average engineer! You work as Microsoft for goodness sake. Try working for government or even a small fortune 500 company. This app. Jesus!.
It’s called a mortgage.
Money.