{"id":413,"date":"2025-09-04T00:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/?p=413"},"modified":"2025-09-04T00:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:20:23","slug":"boredom-and-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/2025\/09\/boredom-and-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"boredom and motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in my current role at my company for 4.5 years, and I&#8217;ve adjusted quite well to the circumstances.<br><br>Getting used to something inevitably brings a sense of boredom.<br>I&#8217;m wondering if there&#8217;s a more exciting opportunity for me internally or externally.<br><br>At the end of the day, money matters.<br>If I can get the same or more money with a job that&#8217;s less demanding and has a better work-life balance, that will be good.<br>I know that&#8217;s probably asking too much.<br><br>&#8220;At forty, I had no delusions.&#8221; is a famous phrase, but I doubt it, at least for me.<br>I&#8217;m still motivated, but my motivation is fading drastically.<br>It feels like I&#8217;m pressing the gas and the brake at the same time.<br><br>I don&#8217;t have time to elaborate, but family is also difficult.<br>I have delusions at 42.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in my current role at my company for 4.5 years, and I&#8217;ve adjusted quite well to the circ<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/2025\/09\/boredom-and-motivation\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}