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theres nothing wrong with proper preparation, but the whole idea of gamifying the process seems incredibly unnecessary. As an employer I look for people that a
by angryasian 14y ago
theres nothing wrong with proper preparation, but the whole idea of gamifying the process seems incredibly unnecessary. As an employer I look for people that are very self motivated, and don't require any external motivations like an ipad to do something. If someone told me they needed this type of effort to get something done that as in his words "is a dream of mine", then he already failed my test.
- anjc 14y agoThat's a silly test then. Everybody needs to be motivated to work, whether their motivation is supporting a family, making money, enjoying a task etc etc. There's no inherent enjoyment to making money for somebody else.
- angryasian 14y agoin the context of work yes. But in the context of learning or bettering your skills and yourself... this type of motivation is best from people that want to do it because they want to make themselves better.
- bstriddy 14y agoYeah, clearly this guy's problem is a lack of self-motivation. Good thing you're here to tell him he's having too much fun.
- eshvk 14y agoHe generated his own motivation: His external motivations were bought with his own money. Why is this a problem as long as he gets the job done? Everyone gets motivated by something: After all, as an employer, surely you do pay your employees, don't you? That does act as some sort of motivation. Otherwise, they would be all working for you for free just driven by all that "self-motivation".
- angryasian 14y agoin the context of work yes. But in the context of learning or bettering your skills and yourself... this type of motivation is best from people that want to do it because they want to make themselves better. So if everytime I expect him to learn something new that will help him in his career path, I have to give him a bonus or a raise it doesn't scale.