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[housebroke]

[ life is hard. let's all deal with that fact together. ]

What exactly is a personal motivator meant to do?

Are people truly confused enough by their own pitiful, lackluster intentions that they're willing to seek others supposed professional help simply so they can carry on with routine tasks?

Is this motivation meant to include every act of waking life (dare say I need not list what these are) or simply those that might be perceived as more strenuous. Because, as I have always found, personal motivation can truly only come from one source. You. It is called personal after all, the definition of the word implying that it has to do with one person and one person alone. And that person would not be the person you hired to tell you what you so obviously would rather not be doing in the first place.

If you require the motivation, perhaps you need look elsewhere. Forsake things all together. Or even, if you'd like the inspiration so very much, you might try finding it for yourself. I've heard there are some rather plentiful benefits to taking that sort of thing under your own wing, compared to allowing others to push you into behaviors you don't truly have interest in to begin with.

It's amazing our ancestors made it anywhere, really.

Now, perhaps if you'd like to get hypothetical and claim there are a number of other 'personal motivators' then perhaps you might be on a far better track.

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[redplainsrider]

...Please tell me that ain't truly some sort of actual profession.

you got it!

[housebroke]

Apparently it's quite official. Earn your living through sheer encouragement.

[redplainsrider]

I ain't sure if'n that sounds like the easiest job ever or the hardest. [So bemused.]

[housebroke]

Perhaps it depends on the motivation that's required.

[slightlyoffchilt]

A nihilistic personal motivator!

I love it.

[housebroke]

Nihilistic? Not exactly, no. Nor do I have any intention of motivating.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Then pardon me, though it was your your advice to "forsake things" that I found particularly delectable.

The good news is that you can petition for a different sort of employment. The bad is news we would lose your personal motivation.

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[motherflocker]

I like to think of it as a prime opportunity to make money. People are always looking for an answer to their troubles, and who says you don't have one?

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[housebroke]

Except I might find providing answers as to how one should get up in the morning something of a bore.

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[motherflocker]

Compared to some, that's hardly considered the worst thing you could do for money, don't you think?

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[notdaredevil]

We've come to a point where I genuinely can't tell if this is an ad, an essay of personal philosophy, or just blowing off steam.

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[housebroke]

[ .... wow. ]

I'll take option three. It certainly isn't an advertisement.

[notdaredevil]

[ It's not an exaggeration. Also, damn this text thing, seriously, he's not doing it today. ]

It wouldn't even be the worst one if it were.

[ Potshots at Jeff Winger for $300, Alex. ]

You're not obligated to keep the job, you know.

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[angelfire]

It would be comforting to tell you that such pitiful whining and inability to perform a simple task was a modern invention, but humans have been doing it since the beginning of time. The first early man, having the secret of fire thrust upon him by Prometheus, wouldn't even perform that simple chore unless at least half a dozen of his clan were about to watch and clap him on the back.
There are exceptions, of course, but who wouldn't pay to have someone play the part of their guilty conscience, when it's clearly so much effort to care?

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[housebroke]

You could say that at least we ended up with fire at the end of things. But social constructs built around the pressures and encouragement of others are far different from paying another person solely to tell you how worthwhile it may be to perform a task. Such as applying for a job if they'd enjoy the possibility of earning an income.

And yet as you already said, people would prefer life offered to them on a silver platter. Willingness to exert effort is a difficult thing to come by.

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[angelfire]

For those with and without money alike.
Can you say what you did before coming here was any better?

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[cleptes]

In my experience, money has always been a good motivator. Blackmail. Extortion. The occasional threat.

Some people tend to claim that they are complex and hard to understand, but a lot of them are driven by the same needs and wants. It's a matter of identifying what those needs are and using that to your advantage.

Unless that isn't your thing of course.

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[housebroke]

Are you claiming I should dangle money in front of their noses for maximum cooperation?

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[cleptes]

All I'm claiming is my own experience.

What you choose to do with what I've said is entirely up to yourself.

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[rathercommon]

Oh, HONESTLY. Motivation DOESN'T come only from inside one person, it's a complex system of both understanding what's needed and having sufficient reason to do what's needed. It's constructed and filtered through others' expectations and how someone wants to be positioned in society, isn't it. And I think YOU'RE oversimplifying things purely because you're put out over getting assigned a job you think is beneath you.

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[housebroke]

I can hardly deny that motivation comes from a vast number of sources when it comes to both personal, physical, and mental ideals and capabilities. There's no way I could possibly disagree, you're entirely correct.

However, I wouldn't say it's so much beneath me as I find myself ill equipped to manage a job that requires me to help those who might be looking for motivation for the simpler things in life. They could have, perhaps, chosen a more interested candidate.

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[rathercommon]

[ Satisfied at him conceding the point, she gets a little bit less...plucky. ]

Oh, they've got someone working in the job-placement office who's got QUITE the sense of humor. You oughtn't take it as anything more than someone trying to be clever. And you needn't stay with it, either, if you don't want to.

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[ferrisbuellean]

Others have already said it but there's no better way to make money than feed off peoples fears, worries and concerns. People will pay a lot if they think it'll make them feel better.

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[housebroke]

Of course they will. My main concern is i'll pay with my sanity if other's doldrums prove unwilling to be motivated under any fashion.

[ferrisbuellean]

What's it matter to you so long as you're getting paid? Who cares if they actually succeed or not?