How to stay motivated on the job?

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Published on 2008-11-06T14:40:16Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 17:43 UTC
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Hi All,

I've been working as an engineer professionally for 15 years for a number of different companies. My question is how do you stay motivated at work? I can generally be easily motivated if I'm working on design, but that seems to be about 5% of my actual work hours. Most of my work seems to end up being fixing problems in existing poorly designed projects.

I'd love to hear some feedback from the other members out there.

Thank you, Fred

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