Are you a former high-achieving student struggling with motivation in the workplace? Need advice on overcoming laziness and underperformance at work?
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Hi everyone,
Have you experienced going from being a high-achieving student to feeling lazy and unmotivated at work? Graduating two years ago, I used to work hard for top grades and accolades. Now, in a consulting job, I find myself making mistakes and lacking motivation. Any suggestions on how to get back on track? Your input would be greatly appreciated.
Do you think you’re in the wrong role, the wrong company or the wrong industry? What is the critical difference that’s keeping you from being the way you were in school?
In school, you had an obvious path to success – grades were the success metric. Now that you’re working a job, you have no obvious path to success, and it is demotivating you.
Money is usually the motivating factor for jobs, but as there are no promotions, no monetary things you can win or up your salary, jobs then begin to feel like a never ending circle, a slog with nothing “more” to work for. Changing jobs you are aware may also up your salary….but the cycle stays the exact same.
You were taught that you could gain better and better grades, but with a job, you gain nothing better by working harder or smarter….so your taught metric of success makes you die inside!
Until you define your success as something different, or you plan a metric that includes a mix of things such as financial, growth of skills, ability to do x, perhaps have the “have a family” metric, a travel metric….whatever might make you happy that allows you to feel like work is a means to get those things!
Good. Fuck the system. Let corporate America die- the faster the better. Help speed up the process so we can start healing.
Find out what is motivating you and what made you get those grades. Some people, love the process of studying and give 0 care about the grades, which i dont think you are?. Other people are numbers. oriented.
If you are number oriented person, look at a job where you are payed per project not per hour. Something sales related or something programming related. Also, your adrenaline will ne high, as the stakes are high, so i doubt that you will be making silly mistakes there.