What else motivate you?

I can write a long list of things that demotivate me from studying for certs; but that's not what this thread's about.

To make it concise and useful, I have two questions:

1) I found that looking at jobs that pay 2x times my current salary motivate me. So I guess money is the motivator here? It's strange because I don't have a clear idea on what or why those figures motivate me but they do. The question here is do you get motivated when you see positions similar to yours or few level above that pay a lot?? Do you feel motivated to study and get those damn figures?

2) What else motivate you? What makes you go home and open the books/labs? What makes you say no to going out and socializing and just stay at home and study for 3+ hours after work? To narrow the question, what is your STRONGEST motivator?

I know some (a lot) of you and myself included are motivated by the fact that we don't want to be jobless, but this is just fear. I know that if I lose my job I can just do anything. I'm looking for motivation that's not fear based. My brain doesn't work well with fear-based motivations. Fear doesn't motivate me, it does the opposite to me, unfortunately.

This is an open question, feel free to share your story, I'd love to hear them. I've been in dire need for motivation for years. It comes and goes.

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TechGromit

UnixGuy wrote: »

I know some (a lot) of you and myself included are motivated by the fact that we don't want to be jobless, but this is just fear. I know that if I lose my job I can just do anything. I'm looking for motivation that's not fear based.

I guess wanting a more interesting and challenging jobs are motivators. I could easily get a job in my companies security operations center, but that's shift work, 24/7 coverage. Working weekends and holiday's doesn't appeal to me. I want to be the next level up security guys that analyze malware and perform the more interesting security work. Instead of the lower level crap that is like working in the security world version of the help desk.

stlsmoore

For me it changes as time goes on. To begin with it was my interest in technology, then wanting to reach higher salary. Now that I have a family and a little older, it's about using the income from my career to grow my wealth and increase income outside of the IT field.