What motivates you to work?

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1. Money can be exchanged for goods and services. I like goods and services.

2. Pays the mortgage

3. Trying to earn enough money that I can afford to trade it for time and help those that I care about without sacrificing my financial plan.

   So far I’ve been successful, my wife and I are able to take a big vacay yearly, paid in cash, she takes a cruise yearly with her mother paid in cash and in 2023, we are able to pay for another couple that otherwise would not likely have the means to travel, to go with us on vacation.

4. I prefer to not be in jail for skirting child support.

5. Honestly I just don’t want to live with my parents and I like stuff.

6. Providing for my family.

7. I’m quite partial to having a roof over my head.

8. To pay for rent, food, gas for my car, and for my hobbies. It isn’t a great system but it’s what we’ve got

9. The ability to eventually retire. The “harder” (not really, but somewhat) I work, the earlier that retirement.

   I work harder now so I can choose to not work later.

10. My key motivation is that I don’t like being poor. I like being able to grocery shop without worrying, I like traveling, I like buying toys for myself, and I like being able to use that money to do nice things for my family.

    I was dirt poor for most of my life and I’d rather not do that again. Government cheese doesn’t melt, bro. It just gets a little softer.

11. We’ll the obvious one is money but it’s what I have to do to survive. It helps that I like my job but the only thing that sucks is the commute. I don’t have the means or money to move closer so it’s just something I have to deal with

12. Money. I like expensive shit.

13. I like living in my house in the neighborhood I’m in. I also enjoy my job in tech and get satisfaction from creating things and learning more.

14. I detest working.

    But I’m motivated to work because of that hate for it.

    By increasing my skill and value to employers, it means that I can earn a higher hourly rate, and in turn work less. My goal is to work as little as possible, but obviously society mandates that we work to gain an income to spend on housing, basic necessities, amemities, luxuries, almost everything has a cost.

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16. i like money, i like buying things with money. also, dunno what else i’d be doing. despite how the current economy is doing, i’m in a privellaged position (and have been for a while now) that if i was let go, i’m not immediately panicking because of loss of income. it’s more of a “oh cool i get to move back to the city”.

    if i had to answer what i liked about my job. it’s pretty basic hours, i almost never have to do OT, have a decent pension and benefits and my job is dynamic enough that i feel like i’m tested with a new situation every few month or so.

    my job funds my lifestyle.

17. The fuck do you suggest the alternative is? You have to eat and you have to sleep somewhere; that requires money which requires a job. Since you have to work anyway, might as well try to make it a decent job that pays okay and lets you buy some nice things here and there.

18. Providing for my family. Oh and helping to save lives

19. Helping customers solve problems

20. I have a wife and kids to house, clothe, and feed.

21. Work at all? Sustenance and comfort.

    Work where I work now? The people. I love my team and genuinely respect the humans in my chain of command (both above me and on my team). Also I learn a lot from the kinds of work I find myself doing. It’s a useful, practical application of the concepts I learned in grad school.

22. Apart from the general utility of money, I like to make the world a better place, to challenge myself and experience new things. I’d be doing those things for free if left up to my own devices, so I may as well be paid.

23. The idea of not taking the opportunity to use my skills and strengths to give back to society and possibly improve someone else’s wellbeing (MLS) feels unfulfilling and gives me purpose.

24. Money is exchanged for the things i need to pay for to live. I need to work to make money. If i cannot make money i cannot live the life i love. I work to live

25. I mean money to live and enjoy life. Secondarily, I like to feel as though I’m contributing and doing a good job is a part of that

26. Nothing. I don’t even know why I do it anymore. I guess I just feel like it’s what I’m supposed to do.

27. If I need to motivate myself to do something, I’m doing it wrong

28. I like money.

29. An overwhelming desire to sleep inside.

30. I’m mexican just happens

31. I bought a 185 acres of land.

    Its way cool to own a ranch.