I have lost the will to do my job today. But feel guilt because I am the only one on my team that can execute what needs to be done.
How do you manage the monotony of repetitive labor day in and day out?

You should express your frustration to your management if you have good relationship. But maybe you're demotivated because of shit management? If not, express and work together to get to the root causes, a motivated dev ia 4x of a unmotivated one.

Think on your values and how your project meets them and address that.

t. engineering manager

I think performers are naturally very volatile. That comes with cycles of health and recovery. It can simply be how good or bad a project is by pure chance. Drive and burnout play a factor.

I try to allocate certain times of day to what's best going to suit my focus. Early, I will have energy and mental clarity. I can attend to the most difficult decisions and core process. Later in the day, I'll probably only be there physically. I prefer to just be in a rhythm so that a lot can get done and I can check out.

>>2923452 (OP)
I know how you feel. I work with complete retards and without me there the work basically grinds to a halt. I'm the only guy on the crew able to do layout or make an independent decision without having to call the boss. Yet I'm paid the same as the other guys and I don't even have a company truck. Getting fed up with this shit

>>2923452 (OP)
Just work slower and take it easy mostly. Listen to music, have a nice drink, make sure your work space isnt a mess, just try and make it as pleasant as possible.

Im one man in a two man team and im the one trying to keep stuff organized and clean and having to remind him of things. Its so annoying that nothing ever changes. Im so tired. But my hours are good (start 9-10 am) so i put up with it. If work didn't suck it wouldn't be work.

It's unfortunate that the reality of working in the trades is that you will most likely be working with people who are lazy and dumb. Everyone who's good at their job ends up working for themselves. I know I will try soon.

>>2923452 (OP)
Make it a simpler routine with check list n shit. Everything is just follow the road. 120% and lots of thoughts is not milkable.

>>2923483
I do have a good relationship with my manager/boss. I think part of my problem is I hit a ceiling with the work I do, and I find it mindlessly easy. I kept asking my previous boss to do more, perhaps talk to clients, draw up designs with them myself, (things I have done before in different roles) but never got the option.
Right now I started this new position relatively recently, so I’m not sure if they would want me stepping out of my zone so early. Plus I’d obviously want more money, which is another factor.
>>2923486
I notice my days are similar, mornings I want to engage, but if the work isn’t there I get lost. Then eventually find a spot in doing the monotonous, no thought sort of work that needs to be done to finish up a job in the afternoons.
>>2923497
Pay jazz is what demotivates me. Not that I’m severely underpaid, I just don’t think I get paid what I’m worth and that’s discouraging.
>>2923537
Good advice.

>>2923556
>I know I will try soon
I think that’s my path too. My coworkers aren’t lazy, they’re actually pretty competent. The only problem is my work is silo’d so it’s basically only myself I get to work with 80% of the time.
>>2923737
I guess I gotta learn to do that for myself. I do like when I’m just told what needs to get done and by when, but this new job doesn’t really do that. My manager, sales people and designers are seemingly still learning the process and seem much more lost than me. So I have to track down stuff that needs to be done myself, which is annoying. My old job my boss was an asshole, but he at least treated me like a retarded computer that would just execute on what needed to be done, which I appreciated.

>>2923833
What trade do you do?

>>2923856
It’s not really a trade, I do custom fabrication in the signage industry. Primarily running a CNC, laser cutter, and an engraver. We work on giant theater marquees that are 30 feet tall to a bathroom sign for an office and everything in between. Even giant 300’ rooftop murals for businesses, for who to see? I don’t know, but they pay for them.
My job to take a client’s job and turn it into a production process that minimizes material waste and figure out assembly processes to make sure that goes along quickly, then do that.

>>2923979
>>2923856
I also fell into this line of work by finding the closest job to me on Craigslist map view option, lying about my CNC and fabrication experience, then actually being really good at the job from growing up puttering around with the tools my Dad had in his garage, no CNC, but I was making build plans in first grade and making my own stuff not long after.

>>2923452 (OP)
>But feel guilt because I am the only one on my team that can execute what needs to be done
lmao why? just fucking do it lol

>>2923999
fair point. But I just don’t care enough.
>ohh, made my boss $24 thousand dollars for a job I got paid hourly $900 for.
I spent the week remoting into my home computer and working on software dev stuff for my own project because I know I can deliver the required amount of signs in no time.
If I were actually fed work day in and day out, like, here, “this is what you have to get done today” I’d be more motivated.
Instead it’s a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off randomly telling me what they need done, and I know my capacity, and if they think all I need to focus on for the week is something that can get done in a day, I just don’t care.

>>2923452 (OP)
Job hopping.