Ever since I graduated from college, the quantity and quality of my working hours have been drastically decreasing. I have always struggled with pursuiting long term goals. Losing the carrot on the stick from the education system has been a major challenge. I am fortunate to have professional and technical opportunities to grow. However, I don't have the discipline to pursuit those opportunities. I am scared that my lack of urgency now will put me into a disadvantage when the ageism in the tech bubble settling in. I know the growth mindset is the truth, but I can't consistently convince myself to make the hard choice to improve on myself. TLDR: Have been lazy since college. How to stay discipline to chase after long term goals? TC: 180
Sounds like burnout and I can relate to this very well. A lot of this has to do with the amount of BS and politics in one’s org and team. My lack of motivation is directly proportional to the amount of BS I have to endure.
Find your love again. You would start enjoying.
Who hasn't. The only moment people feel urgency is when they are: 1. Preparing and interviewing (increases salary). 2. Doing actually meaningful work, which happens most of the times only in early-stage startups (90% of the times it will decrease salary, and I'm being generous). So if you want to keep feeling the fire AND earning more money, jump every two-three years. If what matters is personal/skillset growth and sense of purpose, startups may be the only way to go. Beware of the pitfalls though
I did dick after college, went back to Houston, played a lot of Minecraft. Eventually my parents forced me to get a job in bigoil with shitty technology. Did a lot of enterprise jobs, and finally decided to get my shit together and get into Google. It's not harder now at 34. It's much easier. I'm so much better. I think what happens to old people is they decide everything invented after they turn 30 is bullshit, and if you're a young developer, do you want to work with someone who's both mildly ignorant and contemptuous of you? However, that's a choice. As long as you keep an open mind, and make a steady effort to grow, you'll ever get old.
Dude I feel the same way. I graduated in December and have felt like I’m not performing as well as I should at my job because of laziness and disinterest.
Sounds like me over the last 18 months. I'm thinking about attending a coding bootcamp or something to make me want to code more. For me I have a lot of family drama going on for the last few years that's killed my focus and motivation.
Work ethic? Try ethic first Intuit.
Lol, what
Relatable.