NO motivation or interest

[lukemg]

yep - I am on the same page, I find it all painfully dull so have for some time been working at FIRE (financial independence retire early).
This makes work optional/take summer off/pick and choose where and what work you do.

Only enjoyment is people who you connect with at work and can have a laugh with, rare but good when it happens !

[DimPrawn]

I find it helps me to keep interested if I move between different industries and types of project a lot. Oh, and stay as far away as possible from corporate IT.

Don't know how practical it is if you're anything other than a developer, but the other year I worked with an online provider of archive materials to libraries, was involved in developing an award-winning promotional web campaign for a major online fashion retailer, and contributed to user interface code used by Freesat set top boxes, all in the space of eleven months. The key thing was that each of these gave me an opportunity to learn new stuff about various fields I might not otherwise have had any contact with, even though I was being paid to use exactly the same development skills at all of them.

When I end up working in the same industry for too long, or going back to one I already know well, or am involved with something that could never, ever, under any circumstances be interesting in the first place (such as corporate IT services), I get bored a lot more easily.

Still sounds dull to me. Dull webtulipes, dull boxes with flashing lights, dullards doinds sprints to dullsville. Dull bobs.

Dull, dull, dull.

[AtW]

Life's too short - get a Ferrari

[MarillionFan]

My kids are grown up at uni !!

No fit room mates at their digs you can play sugar daddy to. That will spice your life up

[MarillionFan]

Still sounds dull to me. Dull webtulipes, dull boxes with flashing lights, dullards doinds sprints to dullsville. Dull bobs.

Dull, dull, dull.

But harsh. If you've met Nick you'll know he screams excitement.

[NickFitz]

Still sounds dull to me. Dull webtulipes, dull boxes with flashing lights, dullards doinds sprints to dullsville. Dull bobs.

Dull, dull, dull.

I think it's just that more advanced software development projects are only interesting to those intellectually equipped to understand them

[AtW]

I think it's just that more advanced software development projects are only interesting to those intellectually equipped to understand them

If you are intellectually equipped to understand a project, then it can't be advanced - you are on level with it, it's only when you don't know what you doing ...

[NickFitz]

If you are intellectually equipped to understand a project, then it can't be advanced - you are on level with it, it's only when you don't know what you doing ...

I never said I knew what I was doing

[Mincepie]

Work is rarely exciting,normally very tedious and working with annoying cretins. I gave up years ago pretending i was interested in what i do. Keep invoicing and plan the early deaths of multiple people is the only advice i can offer

[fizzy]

I am the same, completely lost my motivation probably when I started contracting. I used to love learning new things, the variety and everything else.

The problem is now I have a plan B, but at the moment its just a dream but its all I can think about. Unlike you I still want to work but on my plan B. Any extra effort spent on IT seems like a waste of time and doesn't interest me any more.