NO motivation or interest

[AtW]

I think we need a Morale Officer here

[SandyD]

You need some philosophy in your life!

Read Atlas Shrugged. It's big but it's good - when you get to the end you'll realise that all of those pages of detail were actually there for a good reason.

You need to understand that the point of life is to enjoy it - and the root of all meaningful human happiness is pride - and the primary root of self-pride is productive labour.

Productivity, as a man, is what makes human beings tick. And the extent to which you are productive, according to your potential, is the extent to which you will experience pride & therefore deep & meaningful happiness. I.e. the more you distinguish yourself from a mindless animal the more you will naturally feel happiness.


You just need a change of perspective, and for that I recommend reading Ayn Rand, and for easier to swallow goodness I recommend the 'fountainhead' and 'atlas shrugged' as they are fiction (and 'anthem' is a nice 2 hour long novella I recommend too). There is ALOT more to atlas shrugged, regarding life in general, than opposing collectivism & socialist ideas.

Read Atlas Shrugged long time ago, it was a good book, but I don't believe in Ayan Rand's philosophy 100% sure productivity at work is so satisfying, I remember the days I felt that.

I may need a project outside work to feel productive... I don't want to change careers now !

[SandyD]

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 !

Thanks, good points

[SandyD]

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

Difficult to play sugar daddy when am a woman ..

MF.. so hurt you forgot me, just because I haven't logged in the last few years !!!

[SandyD]

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.

I am a business analyst, the only organisations nowadays willing to pay for BAs are banks ... used to be Banks, Governments and Telecoms, but the other two have no or very little work for BAs now.

[AtW]

I am a business analyst, the only organisations nowadays willing to pay for BAs are banks ... used to be Banks, Governments and Telecoms, but the other two have no or very little work for BAs now.

If you choose money, then you can't expect to be happy....










Unless it's a shedload of money

[xoggoth]

Vodka

WaTwS

Funny how things you like doing in life sometimes seem to do nowt for you. No explanation for that or other strange changes.

[MarillionFan]

Difficult to play sugar daddy when am a woman ..

MF.. so hurt you forgot me, just because I haven't logged in the last few years !!!

Wasn't sure if SandyD was SandyDown so went with the majority. How could I forget the summer of 2002

[FatLazyContractor]

Difficult to play sugar daddy when am a woman ..

You aren't exempt from the swingers club though.

[minestrone]

You need some philosophy in your life!

Read Atlas Shrugged. It's big but it's good - when you get to the end you'll realise that all of those pages of detail were actually there for a good reason.

You need to understand that the point of life is to enjoy it - and the root of all meaningful human happiness is pride - and the primary root of self-pride is productive labour.

Productivity, as a man, is what makes human beings tick. And the extent to which you are productive, according to your potential, is the extent to which you will experience pride & therefore deep & meaningful happiness. I.e. the more you distinguish yourself from a mindless animal the more you will naturally feel happiness.


You just need a change of perspective, and for that I recommend reading Ayn Rand, and for easier to swallow goodness I recommend the 'fountainhead' and 'atlas shrugged' as they are fiction (and 'anthem' is a nice 2 hour long novella I recommend too). There is ALOT more to atlas shrugged, regarding life in general, than opposing collectivism & socialist ideas.

You are David Koresh and I am calling the ATF