At my previous company, I was the All-Star on my team. People in our department would come to me with all sorts of questions or problems, often impressed by how much I knew, and could problem solve for. It's great, because I have a lot of advanced business skills like databases, SQL, experience in programming and automation. However, I was laid off for “unprecedented times” and pushed for further information from anyone I could. Turns out the reason for the layoff was simply because our stock was beginning to look less and less favorable as the world is collapsing around us. People are struggling to afford groceries, no one wants to buy homes anymore so there's very little our business was really able to grow upon from previous years, and any sort of stagnation in the business is considered unacceptable, to the managers and executives…. So of course, no matter how hard I worked or how good I was at my job, didn't matter in the end.
But the thing I really find challenging in staying motivated lately and seeing the world collapse around us. People all across the country are losing their homes in massive fires, storms, tornadoes, floods, the number of homeless people is skyrocketing… Like, what is there to be excited about going to work everyday? The problems that I'm solving are completely pointless, and in fact, probably contribute to the way that the world is collapsing with climate change, and carbon emissions. Plus, I have to listen to the news everyday knowing that there's nothing I can really do, just watch the world get destroyed around me I guess right?
Like, how do you stay motivated and interested in work When people are losing their lives, cities being destroyed by heat waves and all this crap….