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Discussion on: TOP Motivation killers to avoid 💀

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Nans Dumortier

Not doing the things you like for an extended period of time. We often have to do things we don't like, it's a part of our job. But for example, as a developer, not having the opportunity to actually develop (spending you're whole time in meetings, reviews, deployments ...) is a huge motivation killer.

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Alexandru-Dan Pop

Yeah, there needs to be a sweet spot between coding and doing those support kind of tasks.

We also need to understand that some of these support tasks are probably the ones that are required by the business. So doing that you might be providing more business value than just developing.

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Nans Dumortier

for sure !
I just lived a bad example of this, where I had to spend my whole time doing deployments, troubleshooting and such, and not actually develop anything for several months, and it really did kill my motivation 😅