#LostDrive #CareerFunk #MotivationTips
Hey there friends! 👋 Have you ever experienced that dreaded feeling of losing your “Drive” in your career? 🤔 I know I have recently and boy, does it feel like hitting a brick wall. 🧱 So, I’m wondering, has anyone else been in this boat before? And if so, what did you do to get that fire 🔥 back in your belly?
I mean, we all have those moments where we just feel stuck in a rut and can’t seem to muster up the motivation to push forward. But how do we snap out of it and reignite that passion for what we do? 🤷♀️
So, spill the tea ☕ my fellow career warriors! Share your secrets on how you’ve gotten out of a funk in the past. Let’s swap stories, share some laughs 😂, and maybe even pick up a nugget of wisdom or two along the way.
Let’s dive into this together and help each other rise from the ashes like a phoenix! 🦅 Who’s in? 💪 #RiseAndShine #CareerRevival
Drop your thoughts below and let’s get this conversation going! 💬👇
100percent like you. Currently I decided to accept my job leads no where. Just get the money enjoy life enjoy flexibility to afford everything and keep going to interviews until it fits.
I’m feeling overwhelmed right now. Usually, I’m the one motivating everyone to persevere through failures, but some hits are harder to bounce back from. I recently got rejected from a company I’d been preparing for over a year, aced all the rounds, but the final interviewer messed me up for some reason, Not sure why he did maybe he waa having a bad or he was not qualified enough either way he fucked my entire year worth of hard work , I gave my all in , While I have other offers and my current job is okay, I’m struggling to cope. I think I might be depressed, feeling agitated all the time. I need to take a break, but I’m tired of the constant pressure to keep pushing forward. I just want to sit quietly and relax for a while, but it feels like there’s never enough time. i feel if i stop i will be left behind the constant pressure is killing me inside and i cant share this with anyone
Change jobs
At my first job the engineer I was working under gave me a good piece of advice, jobs like everything else have a lifespan, hang on in one too long and it will start rotting
If your feeling that, time to leave, I didn’t in that job and the 3 years extra i stuck around cost me a lot of money and a lot of my mental and physical health
Polish up the resume and get looking
Oh yeah. I don’t have much of it right now in terms of my job.
Overall I’m a driven person but my employer does an excellent job of sucking it right out of you.
Keep reminding yourself that your job is not your identity. It’s literally just where you work. Purposely keep a positive mindset.
I have this saying for myself. “I need to get a promotion before I get fired.”
I reach a certain point in every role I’ve had where I go from a very high performer to feeling like I’m just scraping by (by my standards), with no interest or direction to continue being a high performer. I’ve fortunately managed to find that new position/role every time before anything caught up to me, but it’s going to happen again. I’m only 2.5 years into my new role and I’m starting to feel that initial itch to do something new again.
Depends if your work is more cyclical, or if it comes in waves of busy vs bored? Personally, when my job gets busy and my schedule gets full, I thrive on that – gives me a sense of importance, I feel needed and value. During slow periods, I’m sitting staring at my computer bored and unmotivated.
If you’re actual company is in a slow moment now, maybe wait if you know there’s a pattern?
But only you know if it’s temporary boredom, or you’re actually sick of the company or type of work you’re doing.
Yes. And just as I was starting to get it back, I got fired.
Now I don’t even know what i want to do anymore.
This was the job I chose as an adult and went back to school for. It does nothing but cause me anxiety. Now it’s gone and I’m not even mad. Just trying to decide what my next move is, because that job title is not the one for me.
This probably won’t help much but.. I lost that drive and really started to think that I would feel burnt out for the rest of my life if I stayed at my job. Then I found out I just had undiagnosed type 1 diabetes. I got the drive right back days after I started treatment 😂
Obviously that’s a special case, but are you feeling burnt out in all areas of life or just your career? No point in making a career change to try and fix this if it’s something broader than that.
Change jobs and careers. Rekindled my drive for me personally. So glad I did. You just have to push past that anxious talking/excuses and trust in your own skills/abilities. There’s an excuse for everything in life. That’s what excuses are lol. Id also argue social media amplifies excuses tenfold as you can read many people having similar struggles which reinforces your excuse. Confirmation bias.
Have a kid.
Do you actually want it back? Is it possible you’re just content with your current situation and no longer feel the need to get more?
I was team lead and we had a person quit. Boss asked me to cover her work for a week or two while they hired someone new. Corporate stuff happened and it took 3 months. I worked a ton of OT doing my job and theirs, but in a salaried position. So, no extra money. I did get a promotion out of that and other things. I coasted for a while after that with no drive. I ended up doing a career pivot into a new track. Got a new position in a different group and got my drive back.
Yup. Got laid off after 20-plus years in a soul-crushing career.
Got a better job with a better company in an unrelated field that I’m passionate about, but interestingly I’m interfacing with most of the same customers I had previously.
Win for me.
I lost the drive 6 years ago. I have no drive, or desire to move up. I worked a couple jobs since, was let go from one as a budget thing, and quit the last one because it was shit, and now I can’t find the motivation to look. I hate the entire idea of this.
I got burned out. Was miserable for a while. Then found my dream job but also learned that overworking yourself is not worth it.
Oh gosh I wish I had the right answer because I’m pushing 60 and that drive is long gone.
The only thing that keeps me going is I need money to survive. I am working to live. And when you work to live, you think about what you are living for: travel, your family, your health, your lifestyle… whatever.
It is the only thing that motivates me any longer. What is it that I want out of life and how does having a good paying steady job make that happen.
And then occasionally something in your job or career will inspire you to push a little more and you’ll gain some satisfaction from a job well done.
Never really got it back. Just a long series of kidney punches and knives since then. Now, is the cherry on top.