Ask HN: What do you do when you've lost motivation at work?

Re:Ask HN: What do you do when you've lost motivation at work? by superplussed on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:00PM (#14258351)

As I said in my comments, it's not about not being at 100% capacity all of the time. No-one is, but there are honest ways to communicate that.

What's crazy to me is strategically lying to your employers IN ADVANCE, to set yourself up to not do any work. Especially given that you are posting it under your name.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do when you've lost motivation at work? by orthecreedence on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:06PM (#14258416)

Oh, perhaps I wasn't clear. When I say I allot a week for something (5 days), that task, working at a normal pace, would probably take 3-4 days. I'm not asking for a week when it takes a day. I'm asking for 1.5x how much I think it will take to pad. Normal practice.

However sometimes, I am just not able to work on that project for a few days, and end up doing it all in one day/night after having a few days to thinking about it. For me, a good chunk of the job is thinking about it. The coding just kind of flows after that. The problem is that the thinking gets delayed =]

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do when you've lost motivation at work? by switch007 on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:51PM (#14258886)

Employers never IN ADVANCE plan to lie to employees, right? If you ask your boss a question, you ALWAYS get a truthful answer.

Life isn't black and white. What if they're a 55 year old in tech? I could imagine someone being scared shitless of saying they're "burnt out"

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do when you've lost motivation at work? by fnovd on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @03:09PM (#14259039)

I think the difference here is that you see recharging as "not doing work" while the person you are responding to sees it as part of a natural work cycle.

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