Motivation

[DeHaviLand]

THEFUGITIVE1993 ------ well sorry ( im stupid I dont even know what semantics are) well no im not really going into self worth etc.. the way you're talking I presume you'll me all clued up on Maslows hierarchy of needs..... in which you are right the motivation at the bottom of the hierarchy is for FOOD, DRINK, SEX etc and then the next level security so SHELTER and the basics there all of which we will be motivated by our need for money to achieve these but once these have been satisfied and we move up the hierarchy we are motivated by other things and right at the top self actualisation which our self worth etc comes in.

am I just talking nonsense.....??

Well yes, but it may make sense if you used punctuation.

[Tilter]

"When they are honest, most people admit that money is the main motivator for working"

does anyone agree/disagree have any comment to make??

Cheers :-)

Hey Keep On,
I have worked for the past 42 years (48 if you count Saturday jobs). I worked to feed me plus my children. That is the only reason I have ever worked. I've never enjoyed my work. I would have loved to be in a job I enjoyed but never could be bothered (or afford or had the drive) to gain the skills necessary for a job I would enjoy (actually, I still haven't figured out what I want to do when I grow up). However, since I have to spend one-third of each working day working, I figure I might as well make the best job I can of it and enjoy those aspects I do enjoy, enjoy the challenge of my little bits of problem solving and the satisfaction of finishing a (mundane) task, and not moan.

I could quit work now. In fact I think I will. I'm a bit scared of not getting the daily crack and colleague-banter, but I have to assume I'll get a new (unemployed) life, new interests, new friends and new crack. So upwards and onwards. I've never done a Munro and apparently there are hundreds out there.

You do have to admit there are often social aspects to working, not just the dosh.

[KEEP_ON_TRUCKIN]

Thanks for that reply tilter......

Me personally......
I am a single person with no children, I AM driven by money but am not motivated by it.
My rationale....
recently I moved jobs , still in the same line of work but with a smaller firm 120 miles from where I was.
I am driven by money as I enjoy my independence and my ability to stand on my own two feet (i'm 24) I enjoy expensive hobbies, Horses mainly and enjoy driving a "flashy" (in the eye of the beholder - I know) car.
But I am NOT motivated by money , my move was to further my career, to develop as a person, to have a better quality of life, to work less hours, to have MORE responsibility and a desire to be a "somebody" in the industry I work in. An industry (agriculture) that I was not born into (ie not a farmers daughter) but an industry that I seem to have a desire to follow (and idolise?).

So yeah I like money - disposable income is a great thing until it's gone, but my main motivation is not money.

[Tilter]

Keep On, you're cool.

Thanks for that reply tilter......
Me personally......
I am a single person with no children, I AM driven by money but am not motivated by it.

I thought "driven" and "motivated" meant same thing. Do I need to go to dictionary?

recently I moved jobs , still in the same line of work but with a smaller firm 120 miles from where I was.
I am driven by money as I enjoy my independence and my ability to stand on my own two feet (i'm 24)

Ooh I'd love to be 24.

I enjoy expensive hobbies, Horses mainly

Uh-huh. Just wish I could stay on one. Maybe when I retire?

and enjoy driving a "flashy" (in the eye of the beholder - I know) car.

Mmm. Don't understand but whatever floats your boat. (I just fantasize about a 61 Caddy in Caithness but that's as far as it goes. I usually drive a Fiesta, so I guess I do understand.)

But I am NOT motivated by money , my move was to further my career, to develop as a person, to have a better quality of life,

Go for it. I never had "developing as a person" per se, but it's just (adequate) words for an inner inexpressible-in-my-day thing.

to work less hours,

Ooh yes. Do that Keep On. It's the Path To Happiness In The Long Run.

to have MORE responsibility and a desire to be a "somebody" in the industry I work in. An industry (agriculture) that I was not born into (ie not a farmers daughter) but an industry that I seem to have a desire to follow (and idolise?). So yeah I like money - disposable income is a great thing until it's gone, but my main motivation is not money.

I understand where you're coming from. Agree. Good luck with the Agriculture. (I once kept sheep and pigs and poultrey and God know what, and guess what - they thrived! I was quite good at it as (an ex-townie) I listened to my farming peers and I read books on it - i.e., now Internet. SO all the best to you. How do you anticipate working less hours though?

[horseman]

What an interesting outlook,(given your late disclosures)
May you end up winning the g'national an pulling the horse box with a bentley

[Tilter]

What an interesting outlook,(given your late disclosures)
May you end up winning the g'national an pulling the horse box with a bentley

I'm lost. Please explain. Are you talking to me?

[KEEP_ON_TRUCKIN]

I'm lost. Please explain. Are you talking to me?

haha no i think he was talking to me....but unfortunately a Bentley isn't my cup of tea...(range rover sport would do the trick though - haha) as for the national that's more my thing, one of my nags was originally a race horse out of Ireland, goes like the wind even at 20 years young!!!

Well motive and drive are debateable.......


drive maybe a subset of motive...... HUczynski & BUchannan (in Organizational Behaviour) would describe : Drives as innate, biological determinants of behaviour, activated by deprivation.

Motives are socially acquired needs activated by a desire for fulfilment.

Hope this helps explain where im coming from, money is the drive by which I will fullfil my motive....if I didnt have money it would be hard to have other motives is a common theory throughout the academic discussion on the matter!!