What motivates to do your job with enthusiasm everyday?

I’m stuck in mediocre paying job as a Backend Engineer from past 1.5 years. I want to switch but I can’t. I’m unable to came out of comfort zone. Can anyone suggest some good strategies to stay motivated and focused on your job search despite the challenges.

Hey I am an experienced network engineer having experience around 5.5 years but want switch my career profile as a software engineer in any good startup or product company in next 6 months. Any suggestions if it is possible or any route to take to be skilled enough to work as a software engineer.

When I was job hunting a few months back, I told the head hunter that a couple of companies she proposed was not something I believed in, in the nicest way possible. Maybe a dick move, idk. She told me it’ll be impossible for me to find a job in this market if this was my attitude. After that, a month later, she ghosted me when I asked her if she has any leads. I spoke to a few friends and they said it’s a good thing to want to truly believe in what the company does and few told me it didn’t matter. To me it does, because I have always worked in very early startups and I see my time also as an investment. And not to mention, early stage startups are tedious to work in. You lose your motivation if you don’t feel like you’re contributing to a great extent in multiple areas. What’s your take on it? Is it alright as long as you get the money in your account?

Thanks to social media, my attention span has new lows. Working remotely is making me inactive and end up spending tooo much time on scrolling. Not able to continuously work for even one hour without checking the phone. Anyone in a similar situation and how are you trying to get better?

Some days going to office just feels like I am just existing to show up. Anybody feeling the same way?

Relatively new to tech - only 2 years of experience here so far. Yet find it extremely cyclical. Face the same challenges over and over again. Perhaps the setting changes occasionally but that’s really it. I understand this is not unique to tech and happens everywhere. But at least in product management, it seems like it’s research - design - dev with stakeholder management over and over and over again. Feel like I’m on autopilot mode and not truly *enjoying* working. I used to be so full of energy and enthusiasm in college and school, eager to learn. But the cyclical nature of work has wrung it out of me, and I’ve sort of become a cynic lol. Who enjoys their work?

All the people working in startup in stealth mode how much confidence do you have in your company products? And what is the motivation to join stealth startups ?

Everyday i wake up with no motivation to work. Spend most of my day trying to gather any will i have to get something done and just wait for the evening standup. After which i have no energy to do anything since all was lost trying to ( not necessarily doing ) work. Can anyone relate? Or gone through it? How do you even fix it? PS: don't suggest grass is greener on other side and how there are jobless people in the world...

What keeps you motivated to grind leetcode or random design question every day/week? Tried multiple times and given up 😔 YOE - 10

Recently, every friend or colleague of mine have been on rant mode and very dissatisfied with jobs despite being paid bomb money and crazy esops. Is everyone in every organisation in all functions so unhappy or is this just GenZ problem of setting wrong expectations from the Job?