How 'driven' are you?

HOS 1997

Career/money/job/life wise?

Have you been previously but changed? Why?

1ZRed

On a year out and don't have a job yet. You figure it out:p

My name is URL

Nice packet of Crunchy Nut you got here. Pretty expensive, as I recall.

Scioch

Nope,nope.nope and not really. Think my battery is dead.

El Weirdo

How 'driven' are you, OP?

Pottler

Very, and it gets tiring. Would like to be more laid back, but you reach a certain point and suddenly a lot of people depend on you to stay driven so you plough on. Personally, I'd lie on a beach at this stage but that would feck up a fair few people for their livelihood, so it's onward.

Leeg17

I'm can be at times, but if I'm feeling down then all motivation goes out the window..

Where To

I'm a taxi driver so I'm driving, not driven. . . . .

Larianne

I'm driven a lot. I don't drive.

saa

No I'm to prone to the why should I bother with this shít being around shítty people being treated like shít trying to keep up in the rat race, its easier to be relaxed while still setting goals, not being the best but being content.

Fiona

I am fairly driven when I want something I will usually persevere until I get it

questionmark?

I look around the office and see people that have been there twenty years and are stuck in the same position. In the space of a year I have been giving more responsibility than them and got approved for a course that you need in order to ever move up the ladder and I consider myself a little laid back but driven at the same time. You need the balance but some people are just damn lazy.

smash

The fact that I want to punch my boss repeatedly every day makes me both demotivated and driven to do something better at the same time.

Pottler

Fiona wrote: »

I am fairly driven when I want something I will usually persevere until I get it

dead on, -but the sig....it's "tyres or tits":)Testicles, pah, just, pah..

Palytoxin

Not very at the moment, any time there's pressure for anything I just lose any semblance of motivation I have. For example, I have my last exam tomorrow, and I'm here writing this drivel instead of studying. Most of the time, apart from tonight, I would consider myself diligent, disciplined and driven. :cool:

du Maurier

This is about the 5th life assessment/self-reflection thread in AH today. That's deep, man.

bryaner

smash wrote: »

The fact that I want to punch my boss repeatedly every day makes me both demotivated and driven to do something better at the same time.

This ^^

I'm very laid back and wouldn't describe myself as ambitious at all. Seem to be doing ok so far in spite of this.

I think there's been a perception creeping into Irish society that things like "ambition", "drive" and "motivation" are always positive personality traits to have. They aren't, I have enough exposure to people possesing an abundance of these traits in my profession to know this.

People need to remember that there is a very fine line between ambition and greed.

stupidusername

not very at all. i should be, cause it's something i like in other people, but i can't help it. i've never had great ambition or direction in my life, so i've nothing to work towards. except maybe now, i've to work towards getting a friggin job in my field wihich seems to be impossible.

Paulie Gualtieri

im not driven at all sometimes i don't even fin

arse..biscuits

My dad gave me a lift home earlier, does that count?

Jordan 199

Driven to the margin of error...

Chamone MF

the hard thing about being all driven and all '6:30am go gettem tiger', is that you hear and read so many things about people kicking the bucket so often.
i'd hate to have spent my life chasing for whatever it was only to......ah something something you figure the rest out.

Sappa

I started my career working in finance at young age and had great motivators in a massive % of the office being completely instutionslised and used by senior management.
Since those days it's like the carrot and stick approach,I never want to end up like that or not do the things I enjoy and want out of life so it gives me plenty of drive.
You need a balance though to stop it consuming your life as too much stress is just not good.

tdv123

Sometimes I feel a bit funny.

K-9

HOS 1997 wrote: »

Career/money/job/life wise?

Have you been previously but changed? Why?

Driven tends to mean money, job status and career value, means feck all as many the banker found out.

guitarzero

Im pretty 'ehh..'

Its over driven people who I find unbearable, those ones who forget to blink and bang the drawers closed and have well timed wide eyed smiles, always in a rush cuz if they stop, kinda like that film 'Speed' they'll just explode.

Sappa

guitarzero wrote: »

Im pretty 'ehh..'

Its over driven people who I find unbearable, those ones who forget to blink and bang the drawers closed and have well timed wide eyed smiles, always in a rush cuz if they stop, kinda like that film 'Speed' they'll just explode.

Ha ha classic

Frynge

When in work very driven, just got promoted to a position that doesn't yet exist!
But when at home I can let everything build up till I have a couple of days off

Dr Turk Turkelton

Spent my twenties extremely driven and made lots of cash but am in my early 30's now and an so laid back I am almost horizontal!

Loving life now and although I still have a few quid stashed away I feel 100 times better about myself and my life and no stress.

Don't care much for longterm career these days... I go 2 years experience in fund accounting before I left Ireland and have grown to hate the industry since.

Now it's just an earn money, travel, earn money, travel mentality with the money being earned in the places I want to travel.

BsBox

I'm on a year out before I start college and I'm working 2 jobs, so I guess I'm quite driven work-wise.

As for studying, that's a whole different story. I'll figuratively do anything to avoid it.

IM0

very. but not by money or greed.

Mr Simpson

When it comes to college, I'm not very driven unfortunately!! After 5 years, I'm pulling an all nighter for the first time, I've an exam at 9.30, yet I'm on boards!!!

Round the bend usually!

ToddyDoody

I am very very driven when i put my mind to it. Doesnt make you the most popular person in the world! Money isnt a huge motivator for me, yet. So the drive has mainly been in education, education-enhancing work experiences and those hobbies and pasttimes you develop to cultivate a leisure life. In saying that, you'd have to look twice sometimes to know how driven i am because a lot of the stuff i am driven by is long running stuff. Things that dont put in or out on these dont tend to bother me too much.

Fiona

Pottler wrote: »

dead on, -but the sig....it's "tyres or tits":)Testicles, pah, just, pah..

Now you giving lip about my signature just proved my point get back in yer box mate!

Eve_Dublin

A certain amount of drive is healthy. Personally, I have enough that I don't sit around on my hole at the weekends and work enough to feed myself and put clothes on my back and do my best at what I'm doing. I could do with more though.I get things done eventually but it could take years.

Highly driven people rarely have a full bill of health. I'd take the way I am over suffering from stress thank you very much! Did you know 70% of illnesses are caused by stress? Fact! Would rather live slow, dye old to be honest.

I wasn't until about last year
then I decided no point sitting around waiting for things to happen and to go get what I want to
so now I am more so
Still have a balance though

C.D.

Very. Had no drive until the recession hit in 2008, best thing that ever happened to me. Struggled with depression and a load of mother issues for a lot of my teens and early twenties. Coupled with a lot of bad romantic relationships, cancer and bullying I never achieved anything in school and the first few years of college, just scraped by.

Went from failing most of my college exams to getting straight 1.1's. Joined one of the top graduate programs in the country with one of the industry's biggest company's, where the applicant:job ratio was about 200:1. Earnt 44k gross at 24. Found to be one of the top graduates in the country at an annual graduate competition. Looking at moving abroad with my company for different opportunities.

Massive turnaround in 2 years for someone who had always underachieved. If I can do it, anyone can do it. It is a mindset. When you want to be successful as badly as you want to breathe, you will be successful. That drive willl come when you want it badly enough.

CruelCoin

HOS 1997 wrote: »

Career/money/job/life wise?

Have you been previously but changed? Why?

Very driven.

Father set up the best company in his industry, and is the "go-to guy" in it.

Now that i've taken the reins along with my two brothers, anything less than remaining the best is not good enough.

Minimum standard is that i be the best. FACK!

demanufactured

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mki_v4MH_mc

HOS 1997

C.D. wrote: »

Very. Had no drive until the recession hit in 2008, best thing that ever happened to me. Struggled with depression and a load of mother issues for a lot of my teens and early twenties. Coupled with a lot of bad romantic relationships, cancer and bullying I never achieved anything in school and the first few years of college, just scraped by.

Went from failing most of my college exams to getting straight 1.1's. Joined one of the top graduate programs in the country with one of the industry's biggest company's, where the applicant:job ratio was about 200:1. Earnt 44k gross at 24. Found to be one of the top graduates in the country at an annual graduate competition. Looking at moving abroad with my company for different opportunities.

Massive turnaround in 2 years for someone who had always underachieved. If I can do it, anyone can do it. It is a mindset. When you want to be successful as badly as you want to breathe, you will be successful. That drive willl come when you want it badly enough.

Inspiring post. Sounds like you have changed your life around, fair play.

pragmatic1

If its something I enjoy doing and have an interest in, I can be very driven. But most of the time I find it very difficult to muster a ****.

Red Hand

Money, lifestyle, career are things that don't interest me.

HOS 1997

pragmatic1 wrote: »

If its something I enjoy doing and have an interest in, I can be very driven. But most of the time I find it very difficult to muster a ****.

I can be like that. I suppose it's how we motivate ourselves to do the things we don't enjoy (work, study etc.) that determine how successful we are.

bee_keeper

HOS 1997 wrote: »

Career/money/job/life wise?

Have you been previously but changed? Why?

was extremley driven up until the age of twenty one

HOS 1997

bee_keeper wrote: »

was extremley driven up until the age of twenty one

What changed at 21?

bee_keeper

HOS 1997 wrote: »

What changed at 21?

thats for another thread

I_smell_fear

bee_keeper wrote: »

thats for another thread

Did the bee's seek a new queen?

mattjack

questionmark? wrote: »

I look around the office and see people that have been there twenty years and are stuck in the same position. In the space of a year I have been giving more responsibility than them and got approved for a course that you need in order to ever move up the ladder and I consider myself a little laid back but driven at the same time. You need the balance but some people are just damn lazy.

The window cleaning course ?