| I can relate to a lot of things he said, but one thing i used to pass through that was to dedicate myself to a bigger goal. I've started a side project that took me some years (at least 4), a lot of perseverance, because there are a bunch of things that are actually quite boring to implement. (You actually need to create some thick skin to overcome those boring tasks that sometimes can take weeks) Lost basically all of my friends in the process (i'm a social person actually), with the exception of a few who kind of understood it. No weekends, working from 12 to 14 hours a day, having to mix and deal with already bigger and established codebases.. its the loneliest job in the world and you need a lot of mental balance and good mood to go through it. But some special spice that actually helped me going on was that there is a social goal in the project and the idea is to provide a way out of the FAANG centralized and controlled world. People are mostly unaware of where we are heading it as long they have cool gadgets to play with, and governments might only act when its to late. So while everybody is enchanted with this brave new world, the way the things are heading is actually a pretty dangerous one (and i really hope to be wrong on this). This was a very special reason that keep me going even in the hardest parts (as for instance when i lost my dad to COVID). Its not really finished yet as it needs some polish, but giving it needs just a little love, at least now i'm able to do interviews for steady jobs (specially now with more remote ones) and get out of this life of doing freelancing work which sometimes is not very fun. Anyway, my point being, that maybe there's a need for something else, as in my experience, just intellectual curiosity wont do the trick.. (I`ve had some of those too) For instance even with burnout (which i kind of postponed to the last moment), i'm motivated to go through it all to see this project have at least the (little) recognition it deserves and i don't care to have recognition myself nor i've done it to become rich, as there were much better and easy to implement ideas to that goal, but i just want to see it "on track", having a way to evolve and become a viable alternative road to another kind of future giving us back the power that is actually ours in the first place. |