Ask HN: What keeps you motivated to keep going?
Just curious.
Is it money? Family? Prestige? You genuinely enjoy what you do?
Is it money? Family? Prestige? You genuinely enjoy what you do?
Working remotely, almost perpetually stuck in COVID lockdowns/restrictions in Canada for the past 2 years, not having many friends/family and not being able to visit them (they’re all over 10,000km away) for nearly 3 years now, and a partner who’s recently been diagnosed with depression is all taking its toll.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
I get some self-actualization and transcendence, enjoy a lot of aesthetic pleasure. Right now I am thinking about the physiological need of hunger and will go eat after, feel pretty safe, I feel good about myself in most respects but have a certain hole in my self-image that needs some worth.
Unlike a lot of people I see my current job as a solution rather than a problem and side projects as a answer to growth.
Emotional positives are stronger than the negatives. I think my work is meaningful. The people are nice.
I learn things I can't learn at work through doing side projects; interestingly there is a lot of synergy in that my side projects have taught me to be stronger at my weakest areas at work (visual aspects of UI) at my own pace.