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You should really take the actual Myers-Briggs test for a more accurate result. I remember taking it in college but I can't remember if I was an INFP or an ISFP. Oh well. Life goes on...
Thanks, I'll look into it. What I read about INFP pretty much described me though....
A visit to the Indian slum will immediately cure your motivation problem.
Wow, that might the first post of yours I've ever agreed with. I do get what the OP is saying though. I'm definitely bipolar when it comes to work. There are days when I'm completely unproductive, followed by days were I work like a machine. I find this gets worse the longer I've been without a vacation or any real time off.
Wow, that might the first post of yours I've ever agreed with. I do get what the OP is saying though. I'm definitely bipolar when it comes to work. There are days when I'm completely unproductive, followed by days were I work like a machine. I find this gets worse the longer I've been without a vacation or any real time off.
Maybe that's part of my problem too; I haven't taken a vacation this year and moved to a different region of the country this past spring for a new job on two weeks' notice...no break between jobs (drove from Atlanta to Chicago...got to Chicago on a Sunday night...started work early Monday morning). No vacation planned because I want to save money to start grad school next summer, which means I need to start studying for the GRE right now.
I may go home to SC next month for Christmas, but I don't count that as a vacay or real time off.
isn't INFP one of the rarest odd ball ones of them?
I think it will help to develop a rich and rewarding life outside of work. Make your home nice, get involved in activities you find rewarding, and stay active and social.
But then again I'm an ESFP "Entertainer".
****....I just took the test again after 2 or 3 years and now I'm an ESFJ "caregiver". HELL NO.
Maybe that's part of my problem too; I haven't taken a vacation this year and moved to a different region of the country this past spring for a new job on two weeks' notice...no break between jobs (drove from Atlanta to Chicago...got to Chicago on a Sunday night...started work early Monday morning). No vacation planned because I want to save money to start grad school next summer, which means I need to start studying for the GRE right now.
I may go home to SC next month for Christmas, but I don't count that as a vacay or real time off.
Trust me. Every time I came back from my vacation, I got into a major depression which might last a week to a few months depending on how much fun I had during vacation.
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What to do when you seriously can't get motivated to get all of your work done and are you're having a "I wish I was doing something else" moment?
I empathize. One positive thing is that this circumstance lies between your ears, it is under your control (really), and you can USE your brain to make the circumstance less stressful, more bearable, even benign.
Here is what a very wise old guy told me over a beer.
He said "Your real problem is that you're focusing internally on the job, rather than focusing outward. If you change your perspective to focusing outward, rather than on your innards, you will be happier and more productive. The company rents your behavior for eight hours a day. Give them a good rental value - it's all you owe them."
Focusing outward rather than inward allowed me to survive over a long haul where I was compelled to actually share an office with a vicious bully. Being outward focused, and objective-driven to my own objectives down to half hour increments, allowed me to survive that period. I was able to completely tune her out. It got so that I came in, in the morning, didn't say hello, plunged into my half hour by half hour increment goals, took my coffee and lunch breaks, and left. I maintained a pleasant demeanor as part of my rental package behavior.
It drove her nuts that I could completely tune her out. What could she say? I was totally job-focused, I produced high quality work, and I produced a lot of it. Regardless of being perceived as eccentric, no manager - least of all mine - would touch that. It took me a year, but I was able to transfer out of that entire area to another division in the company.
My job at the time was in technical analysis, so it didn't require banter or interaction with her outside of carefully scripted dialogue, and in formal settings - input, feedback, comment adjudication, and working sessions kind of thing. All of this could be kept very carefully emotionally neutral with a pleasant wrapper.
My advice for anybody starting out: stay out of companies that have a critical mass of people who have never had power, and for whom THIS position is the first time they have ever wielded it. Such people have learned that their only impact on the world is indirect, through manipulation. The climate turns vicious if these people also have never had a solid grounding in team sports. Such people tend to take out lifetime resentments on their underlings, forever. After all, they have a lifetime to make up for. Companies that hire exclusively by referral frequently operate in this way. Tier 1 companies do not. Caveat emptor.
Hmm, I could be unemployed and broke, therefore even more bored at home because I would have no life, no money to do anything and not productive to society in any way. That and when I see a homeless man, I think that could be me now or one day.
That's all the motivation I need.
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I do get what the OP is saying though. I'm definitely bipolar when it comes to work. There are days when I'm completely unproductive, followed by days were I work like a machine. I find this gets worse the longer I've been without a vacation or any real time off.
