How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer's guide
I found this to be an incredibly depressing article. It boiled down to, "think about pleasant things that aren't work." For example,> Pick an activity that you've always wanted to try. Don't have ideas? Try Wikipedia for a good list of hobbiesI already have plenty of hobbies, and I'd rather work on any of them than be at work!I've always been very self-motivated. I want to work on what I want to work on. Being forced to work on things that I don't care about in order to draw a salary sucks, and no amount of> Schedule a 30-minute time block to freely jot down questions that spark your curiosity as an engineer. (They don't have to be about work.)is going to change that. If anything, it makes it worse because now I would rather be investigating those questions than working!