I'm a young (27) electronic engineer but I currently don't like the job. It's hard to get up every morning and I'm not motivated at all. It affects my general happyness and therefore my game. My options:

- Do other engineering job (9 to 5 job)
- Work as bartender
- Work on boats (2 months gone, 2 months home)
- Work in the shop of my dad

Any advice is welcome...

Make what u do, what u love. WIT- whatever it takes

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-Supern0va1

This is interesting. I'm a 26 year old telecommunications engineer, but I love my job. Here are some things that really motivate me at my working environment, maybe you have some of those, but you are not aware of them:

- I respect the people I work with. They work hard and have great ambitions and want to help each other.
- They invest in me and send me on bunch of courses. Last week I was attending Oracle DBA course.
- Money is great and it just keep getting better.
- They push me fire every day. Yesterday I was holding this presentation I wasn't really prepared for, but my boss said I'm gonna jump in if you have trouble with it.
- I am also developing strong relationship with customers, get to go with launches with them and do presales.
And bunch of other things I can't think of right now.

Basically I feel I'm growing as a person. And that translates into other areas of my life. Maybe that's the problem with you. Do you have any hobbies? Do you hang out with friends and chase girls? If your lacking in one are that's important to you, other areas, like your job, suffers.

Hope this helps.

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I have to return some videotapes...

I think your career is something that it's not really a good idea to ask definitive questions like "should I do job a, b or c" on a messageboard like this. It's too personal (and important) to you as an individual for any of us to really be able to answer. So I won't say which of your options I think you should do, because really I'd be saying what I would do in your position - but I'm not you, so I don't know what you should do in your position!

However, as the two above have done, we can give you some more general advice. I think in terms of career - the one job you want to do for the rest of your life - you've got to love it, or at least do something that vaguely interests you. If you're talking about jobs - then anything's good as long as it's bringing in the money, but for a career you need to have a passion about it.

Have you ever had a passion for it? Have you only recently started to dislike the job and struggled to get up, or have you been that way pretty much since you started out? If it's only recent, then perhaps it's something else that is affecting your work. If it has always been like that, then you're in the wrong line of work. If that's the case, then don't jump into something else lightly. Maybe try one of the other options for a bit as a "stop-gap" if you really want to get out of your engineering job, but you really need to sit down, and think long and hard about what job you would be passionate about before chucking yourself completely into anything new.