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[-] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago

Idk about you all but when I'm overworked, sometimes when I get free time, I finally have a chance to just exist and do nothing for once.

~(Also, all of the research on UBI show that when people don't have to work, they still choose to)~

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

yea i feel like i need a week or a month to just breathe. and then afterwards i would do all the things i always wanted to do

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and taking time to rest actually makes you more productive.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is true, though we might be better without defining our free time in terms of our productivity for our employer.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is true, though we might be better without defining productivity in terms of what we do for our employer.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Less doing, more being. --Mage Ged

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, sometimes. Definitely just sometimes...

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With time and ADHD: "I could do so much if I just had the motivation."

Life: big bag of Motivation

Me, 2 hours later: "I burned through all that motivation and only got 1/16th of 3 million different things done."

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can relate. Last year I learned HTML+CSS+PHP and then built and ran a radio station called Radio Lemmy. It was the whole package. Even built programming blocks and brought on DJs. I did this all in under three weeks.

And then two months later I got lost all motivation and shut the entire project down. Didn't even make a post in the community for the station. One day the station/website existed, the next day it didn't. I feel guilty for fucking off, but I'm too embarrassed to go even check to see if anyone made a post asking what happened. Even created a new account in a different instance to hide. I'm pathetic.

Fucking ADHD. I'll never have any accomplishments in life because I lose all motivation to carry on the moment I have to actually put in work to make the dream a reality. I've always wanted to run a radio station ever since I was a kid, but it stopped being fun and started feeling like a job way sooner than I wanted it to. I'd love to reboot the concept but I know I'm just going to get tired of it and ghost the listeners a second time around... *sigh*

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

At some point you will just stop trying, knowing you will run out of motivation mid way anyway. It's liberating in a way, knowing the only thing you can expect from yourself is consuming media.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nevarrr! I will die bashing myself against these rocks

But seriously, I just have to satisfy myself with only being able put out maybe one mid project every couple of years

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Damn that stings, but honestly your "failure" is more than I've accomplished even in my successes. Like I just wanted to make a roguelike game, but managed to make a bad roguelike engine that no one uses, not even myself. And I'm still calling that a win.

I know you weren't trying to solicit advice, but have you thought of getting other people involved in running the radio station? Then you can participate when you have the energy, and take a step back when you don't?

Also I have plenty of podcasts, essayists, and newsletter writers that I like, who have a very inconsistent cadence, and it's fine. It's a happy surprise when I see they're back online.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I tried to bring others on but hardly anyone was interested. It was a struggle enough as-is just to find reliable DJs. Nobody wants to work for free, and frankly I don't blame them. And unfortunately I didn't have the funding nor the listener count to bring in enough revenue to actually pay people. Lemmy just doesn't have a big enough pool of users to keep a project like this rolling. I thought about recruiting people from reddit but then that would defeat the whole point of having a radio station just for Lemmy users.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe it could be themed on the reddit to fediverse pipeline/continuum hehe. But I can see that's an exceptionally difficult project to get off the ground, since it relies on a certain critical mass to get going on its own.

Still pretty cool that you managed to test the waters. Maybe someone will stumble upon this thread in a few years and pick up the baton based on your findings.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You could have somebody waiting in the wings to pick it up when you lose interest. You would then not have to run and hide when your motivation flagged. A lot of people can't start a project easily, but can maintain and extend. Just a thought.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Congratulations!
You got 187500 different things done in 2 hours.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Proceeds to be laid off. monkey paw curls

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This was me last year. I didn't get so much done

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything that I thought it could be.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Reddit (now Lemmy) singlehandedly made me as un-creative and unproductive as I am now (more accurately it's my tendency to get addicted to stuff like this led to this, but please let me have this)

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I have to get all of my (non money earning) work in the morning before even opening my phone. As soon as the social media gets going my motivation to do anything creative and engaging drops.

I've tried focusing on creative/artistic communities to try and inspire myself.....but it just doesn't work. I think the passive intake of media ends up scratches the same itch in a much less fulfilling way.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Okay, there's my sign I've had enough Lemmy for today. Thanks

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It isn't really about time, it's about energy.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Also money. All the free time in the world doesn't matter if you can't afford anything.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Time AND money.

Usually one lacks one or the other.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Add motivation to the pile

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hire someone to motivate you, ez

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but it's true for me, though.

I'm an artist. I make illustrations in 2D and model in 3D. Income from it is shit, but it's what I love doing.

However, I needed to take more hours for my day job just to afford life. Now I have less time to work my craft and everything had slowed to a crawl.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Imagine how my life would look if I had a million dollars!

… …

Hey life, I’m game!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Life is only interested in things you could get done, with a million Dollars. Not how your life will look like.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If I had a million dollars, I could eat a burger for breakfast tomorrow.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Life's a demanding jerk

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Conditions, conditions. I’d like to speak to life’s lawyer.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Pretty much the pandemic for people who didn't lose their jobs.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

i mean, technically you said could you didn't say that you would

Just that you could so there was never a bluff here.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

How’d you get this footage of me?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Swap time for money if youre serious

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe a bag of energy and I am golden.

this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
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