I'm curious on how you all stay motivated to work on your games and such. This used to be an easy thing for me. Now, not so much...
I'm not trying to give you all a sob story (I've had worse; been homeless before) but The past months since late October have been really depressing and a real downer. Been out of steady work for 8 months (seattle's available job pool is dwindling and nobody wants to hire full time so I might leave), and now here I am working in a white collar sweatshop 8.5 hours a day, commuting 3+ hours a day, and very little time to myself. The pay isn't even the are minimum to get out of debt due to not having a job, and I literally have no money to myself. Everything goes to rent so I don't end up homeless again. When I do get home, I'm mentally exhausted and feel as if every brain cell in my head is busted. When that happens I can't seem to carry a thought in a bucket so I just go to bed. Cycle repeats.
So how do you all stay motivated? For me it's a constant struggle not to get depressed and start drinking again. I have a game that's almost ready to be released but I have no money to do so. It's already cross platform with lots of great pier reviews too. I even had a Sony publisher take interest in it, plus I got id@xbox approval too, but my financial situation sucks. I spin my gears at max speed but I feel like I'm getting nowhere fast.
Once again, I'm not asking for you to pity me or for sympathy because I'm done crying over it. Life sucks and that isn't going to change for everyone.
What I AM asking is how to stay motivated even when everything looks hopeless and there's no way out? How do you all handle it?
Thanks,
Shogun
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