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Discussion on: What keeps you motivated and what do you find rewarding in your career?

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Adam Whitlock

I would feel like the main incentive does end up being money, which I agree isn’t a great motivator. Maybe an extra day off or something else less cash related? Rewarding deadline based accomplishments is also tough since there are also issues with scope creep and deadlines being undoable.

My personal projects keep me interested in programming outside of work, but recently I am also trying to find balance in my life so I don’t get burnt out as easily. It’s tough for sure

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Hunter Chang

Yeah I'm trying to avoid burnout as well. I didn't do any dev work at all last weekend and it was quite wonderful lol. Trying to maintain that work life balance!