How do I get motivated to work on my career?

Question

After I finish my 8 to 5 job,I don't want to do any more work at all. I don't want to study textbooks full of engineering or business jargon and I barely want to do any housework.

I also don't want to work 90 hours a week even though that's what all the successful people do to get ahead. How can I make myself the kind of person who does this?

Answer 1

I really don't think you can make yourself be someone that you're not. I know I don't have that kind of work ethic in me and nothing I can do will instill it.

I chose my career path because I didn't want the long hours and devotion to my job that is required in the business world, etc. Of course, little did I know, that teachers spend umpteen hours a week of their own time on work...but that's another story.

Don't be so hard on yourself. I think if that was really your calling, you would be self-motivated to do it. Perhaps it is time to rethink what you want your life to be and go from there. This could be your crossroads!

Sometimes your life is your job and sometimes your job just funds your life!

Answer 2

Find a job that you enjoy and the advancement within that field a desire. It is not always a high paying salary to start and many companies pay for continual education. Start with talking to a counselor and testing for your interests and educational possibilities. That is what they are there for. They are guidance counselors, they choose to help people just like you who have no direction, or idea of where to begin. They spent years learning how to do just that. So give it a change take a little time out of your busy day its only a few hours and find a career that you love not a job. I truly wish you a very happy life and a very successful career.

Answer 3

There are several things you can do to motivate yourself:

1) Make a list of things you want to accomplish by furthering your career and how you intend on doing them. Choose one a month/every two week/once a week to do - depending on the time and effort involved and do it. BABY STEPS!!!

2) Leave yourself little reminders on how wonderful you are all over the place to make yourself smile. Start what I call a "rainy day" file as well that you can put funny cards you receive, email jokes you want to remember and comments you receive from current co-workers or friends/faily about how wonderful you are and read them and re-read them when you start to feel down.

3) Make a list of the monetary things you can get once you get to the level you are striving for. Money and possessions should not be the single motivator to get you to do something but sometimes that new car or vacation for 4 days sure can lead you in the right direction.

GOOD LUCK!!!

Answer 4

I work 8+ hours a day and have since 2000. That is when I started going back to school at 45 years of age.

I am now a Junior in a state university, when I started it had been 3 decades since I graduated from H.S. so, I had to take pre-college classes.

I know the road you are on, how difficult it could be, for myself, I must continue because it is important for me to get that degree. It will be at least three more years at 4-8 credits a quarter until I graduate.

It will be one of the proudest days of my life...so go on, keep it up.

For myself...it is my only option. Bite the bullet....in the end, it will be worth the effort.

Answer 5

Go stand in an unemployment line for several hours or just not being to meet your basic financial needs for a while. That would probably motivate you pretty quick. If those don't work, try imagining yourself as a child in a third world country. They would love to have the advantages you have.

Answer 6

find a job related, even distantly, to the job you imagine yourself in. then ask questions! for example, if you're interested in hotel management, get a job in a hotel, and don't just do it, but look at it from a manager's perspective, try to talk to managers and supervisors about what they do. you'd be surprised - they'll be flattered, and tell you all sorts of things, and that's where the real education begins. worked for me.

Answer 7

By living in an extremely poversed environment over a period of time that is effective in tearing you from feeling the safety that procrastination brings.

Answer 8

There is no problem in this attitude. It's all satisfaction and if you are getting by your means enough for livelihood, this is great too. Then all depends what you think necessary for your life.

Answer 9

Look at your bills, taxes, debts.............