Bizbros, how do you stay productive and motivated? I am 23, 10 months into my first corporate wage cage job making $70k (engineering) and have a few side projects going on. However, I've become complacent/burned out at work and given myself anxiety by snoozing my alarm every morning because I dread the day ahead. I want to get that spark back and take actions towards breaking out of my wage cage, but I lack the motivation. Is this what adulthood feels like? Any advice for waking up everyday with a strong conviction to run it up?
Wage cage is the problem. You have to do something you enjoy doing. I started driving myself crazy waging and had to stop. Find another way to make money.
Lincoln Torres
No I was so productive in my early 20s, I worked a part-time night job at a bowling alley. I lifted religiously, I read and learned a lot, I cooked good healthy meals all the time. I had a more active and healthy social life too. Now I work 40 hours in an office. I'm getting fat and do nothing but shitpost on my phone and jerk off.
Nathan Young
get rid of all your addictions , stop cooming, and work on something that is meaningful to you.
Robert Martin
Its hard to not get burned out, for sure. Take it one day at a time. Set small realistic goals you can achieve every day.
Ayden Lopez
>are these side projects related to your job? if so you should speak to management, you can get their approval to work on things you enjoy and if successful they will promote you and if youre very lucky spinoff the division and make you chief.
Gabriel Scott
I work in retail pharmacy. I wake up in the morning and think about how much money I'm gonna make for my 12 hour shift (~$1000). That's enough motivation for me. The nice thing about your field is that you can easily move to a different country or area of the state. If you're not feeling it so much, just leave and find something better.
Bentley Baker
I mean to say company, not country
Luis Martin
>Wage cage is the problem
This. Even a gilded cage is still a cage.
Matthew Ward
Two years ago ago I was exactly like this. 23, engineer, 70k per year, job fucking sucked.
I applied to 1500 jobs over 3 months and got a job for 100k as a PM and studied for the GRE. Saved 75%of my money by living in a slum.
Used that money and my savings to go to grad school @ivy league enginering program.
I take 19 credits a semester, graduate in december 2020 after 2 semesters while working 20 hours a week to not starve. No life.
I turn 25 next week, when I graduate I will make 150k for my company I did my thesis for.
Make a goal and go fucking hard. Let your frustration with your state in the world fuel your way forward.
Ayden Lee
The only things that are meaningful to me are God, guns and video games
Levi Gomez
Good idea. Thanks. I think I'm a slave to my ambition but then paralysis by analysis causes me to stress if I dont make big moves. Small steps is the way.
Blake Walker
sorry bro but you did all that work and youre still a wagie?
Kayden Gray
My ~$200/day after taxes doesnt motivate me. It's the lifestyle of the wage cage that drains the motivation, which I know is a cope. Our ancestors had it way worse yet made it happen. Good times make weak men I guess. We have the technology of the gods, yet we sit on this Chinese yugioh trading site all day instead of making a bigger mark on the world.
Lucas Smith
this pic looks comfy desu, imagine being in his situation. your company is finally at a point where it makes some profit and you can work on your own completely. no boss, you finance yourself. doesnt matter how fucked up your office or place to live looks, that feeling must feel like gold
Henry Fisher
>Our ancestors had it way worse yet made it happen
Protip, they didn't. Most people in history didn't work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
Jose Lewis
I also work for a startup on the side that hasn't made any money yet but we're hopeful, 10% equity.
The job is in sales negotiations for some esoteric weapons tech to the us gov, so wagie but no cagie. It's remote except for going out to customers.
Evan Green
Based. How did you channel that frustration daily opposed to letting it numb you? I'm frustrated but coom it out. Nofap must be the way. Congratz on your success.
This is the end goal right? Having a say in your day to day and finding meaning in life knowing every day you are building something you are proud of opposed to watching the clock go by.
Aiden Brooks
Motivation is for losers. You think Jeff Bezos needed motivation in 1999 or needs it now? Lol. Grit. You either have or you don't (You don't). Do something else.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing. They also didnt have the stress that technology imposes on our daily life. Ted was right.
Mason Edwards
You are a slave to your ambition. All our lives we are brainwashed to be the best, which in actuality means have the most money or the most attention. We're donkeys chasing a carrot on a string and the riders are piling up. Single moms, joggers, bailed out corporations, old boomers, etc, all funded on the backs of wagies who think that one more promotion will finally fill the emptiness inside. Stop caring what other people have and what other people think. Try to find a balance between working and living.
I have a massive ego and am a pretty disagreable man. If I feel my state in the world is not reflective of my ability/what I deserve/greatness, etc. I start to freak out. (When I was living in the slum I'd have a few freakouts where I'd sprint around my apartment spazzing out). Then when I calmed down I would srink like 4 cups of coffee and study for a few hours for my test or apply for jobs or do something productive.
Applying to jobs felt compelling so I kept doing it, doing things that make me feel like I'm moving forward keep the frustration at bay. And Friday and Saturday I'd get blasted drunk with my friends so that helped too.
Hunter Adams
>They also didnt have the stress that technology imposes on our daily life. Cope. It's never been easier with the internet. >Ted was right. Hey, I see your problem now (Victim Mindset) Own your life. It's your fault.
Christian Cox
And then there's dropouts that start a dropshipping store and make in a couple of months what you do in a year.
Wow geez great insight. Ideally I can converge on a meaningful project I can go all in on. Grit/resiliency really genetic? I definitely have some as I made it through engineering school and landed a well respected job
: >Grit/resiliency really genetic? Eh, no? Not genetic. If you need "motivation" then you will never have "grit". Wrong field, study, subject matter. >I definitely have some as I made it through engineering school (rich)Comp sci major here. Makes no difference. > landed a well respected job Then what's your problem? .. .
John Parker
That's a shit picture for a number of reasons but one is Bezos at that time prided himself on spending no money on luxuries or having the appearance of such.
Benjamin Evans
What side projects?
Bentley Reyes
This x1000. You’re all a bunch of wage cuck faggots who think the meaning of life has to do with money and 1-upping the people around you constantly. It’s disgusting. Do what YOU enjoy in life and not what you think society expects from you. You don’t HAVE to get a $400k mortgage, you don’t HAVE to get cucked settle down and focus the rest of your life on taking care of little humans. You don’t HAVE to excel above others and do something “Productive”, which is really just another way of saying that you’re helping to build and maintain the corporate slave machine that’s destroying humanity.
Jason Kelly
Amazon was at the right place at the right moment. I dont know why faggots keep posting this guy. Post people that made it recently without being at the begining of a whole fucking market.
Fake news. Bezos is an Illuminati plant just like Elon Musk. They’re meant to appear like regular Joes who made it big, but they’re not. It was planned a long time ago. All in the effort to guide human civilization in the right direction.
Jayden Rogers
You can't do what you enjoy in life if you aren't rich, and to get rich you need mostly luck.
10m net worth is pretty doable if you're a hardcore motherfucker that wants it bad enough. Above that I'd say it becomes more and more luck based.
Any retard with good finance practices that makes 40k a year can be a 401k millionaire by retirement.
Charles Harris
Very insightful. Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely be revisiting this interview from time to time.
Joseph Edwards
I think this is where your thought process could use a change. while it’s impressive to go through engineering school and landing a “real job”, in a way you’ve been checking boxes all your life to this point while your friends and family cheer you on. To break out of the wagie lifestyle you need to go against the societal grain and train towards your goals over and over again while most the people around you look at you like an idiot who’s wasting time, this is what I think user meant about “grit”. To achieve extraordinary things you need to do what 99% of normies are unwilling and scared to do
Granted I haven’t made it yet at all this is just what I’ve learned from people who have. I have seen a lot of progress on what I want to make a career though and impressed some doubters already
