Ask HN: Where to Find Motivation?
5 by landhog | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I am finding it harder and harder to bring myself to actually do my job as a developer. I do not care in the slightest about the product I work on, the people I work with are fine but there isn’t really any culture or substance in the relationships within the company since it is all remote, and the problems that need solving are all very uninteresting to me. It seems like others on the team and other devs I’ve talked to about this don’t really have the same outlook as I do because they are able to get enough enjoyment and fulfillment out of working with the tech stack that the other factors don’t seem to matter as much if at all to them. I have started to feel this way at all the companies I have worked for at some point, leading me to believe that I just wasn’t working at the right place or I was getting burned out / needed to find somewhere I was passionate about the mission statement of the company for this to go away, but it seems to be a problem that is tied to me and not my environment. I enjoy programming in my free time and love learning, building things, etc… but am not someone who is so enthralled by the act of writing and working with software that I can fully be happy working on absolutely anything like others I know in the same field as me. In an ideal world, I would be able to find somewhere to work that either lines up really well with something I am passionate about or the people I work with are so great that it makes up for the work not being particularly interesting, but this seems challenging to achieve in practice. Does anyone else feel similarly to how I do and if so, are there any strategies you have found useful to help motivate yourself?