Metadata
- Author: charity.wtf
- Full Title:: Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Career tips,
- URL:: https://charity.wtf/2025/07/09/thoughts-on-motivation-and-my-40-year-career/
- Read date:: 2025-07-16
Highlights
(Y’all, it does not need to be this hard. (View Highlight)
My work has brought me so much growth and development and community and friendship. It brings meaning to my life, and the joy of creation. (View Highlight)
So many people have never experienced work as anything but a depersonalizing grind, or an exercise in exploitation, and that is heartbreaking. (View Highlight)
(People who glamorize things like farming, gardening, canning and freezing, taking care of animals, cooking and caretaking, and other forms of manual labor really get under my skin. All of these things make for lovely hobbies, but subsistence labor is neither fun nor meaningful. Trust me on this one.) (View Highlight)
There is joy to be found in building a company, or competing in a marketplace. To be honest, this is not a joy that came to me swiftly or easily. I’ve been doing this for the past 9.5 years, and I’ve been happy doing it for maybe the past 2-3 years. But it has always felt like work worth doing. And ultimately, I think I’m less interested in my own happiness (whatever that means) than I am interested in doing work that feels worth doing. (View Highlight)
Sometimes you may have a strongly held belief that some mainstream business practice is awful, so you take a different path, and then you learn the hard way why it is that people don’t take that path. (This has happened to me more times than I can count. 🙈) Ideals in a vacuum are just not that interesting. (View Highlight)