Hello,

I always felt frequently unmotivated in my professional life.

I faced serious demotivation in the last phase of my PhD, when working later as a software developer for the microelectronics industry, for the air traffic control industry and now for a bank (derivatives products).

I also had a startup project during which the motivation, if I remember correctly, was better.

I believe I have dysthymia and ASD, which may account for it.

Anyway, I feel that most tasks in a job are just uninteresting or too difficult. Or not interesting enough for me to try harder and overcome the difficulty.

Research was good in terms of motivation due to freedom and creativity but the lack of concretization (we just wrote a paper and that's all) of stuff was demotivating.

Anyone feeling something similar? How do you deal with it?

Thanks.