What Motivates you?

terra_ferma

Morgan_Ree wrote: »

I would have to say making a better life for me and my little boy

I'm a student nurse, still 2 years of the course to go so I guess at the minute I'm bottom of the food chain! The way I look at it is it won't be like this forever.

Lets face it I'm never going to make my millions being a nurse, but my aim is to be comfortable. With job security. Thats what motivates me to get out of bed at 5am on a cold dark morning to go onto a ward full of hormonal teenagers and put up with their !!!!! for 14 hours a day

Although this may be how your feel, this thread is about how to answer a question at an interview.
I don't work in Health, but do think that this answer would get you the job?

Personally an answer like that, if said with a sense of humour would be OK, but followed with something a bit more enthusiastic about the role itself. Otherwise it sounds like you'd take any job, you don't give a toss about the role, as long as it pays well.
I don't care about people's family commitments, but the enthusiasm and wanting to do a good job would do it for me.
I like ambition too, it motivates people to work hard and achieve, but for some jobs it's not good if either the job/company does not offer opportunities (you'll learn the job and then leave).

Morgan_Ree

terra_ferma wrote: »

Although this may be how your feel, this thread is about how to answer a question at an interview.
I don't work in Health, but do think that this answer would get you the job?

Personally an answer like that, if said with a sense of humour would be OK, but followed with something a bit more enthusiastic about the role itself. Otherwise it sounds like you'd take any job, you don't give a toss about the role, as long as it pays well.
I don't care about people's family commitments, but the enthusiasm and wanting to do a good job would do it for me.
I like ambition too, it motivates people to work hard and achieve, but for some jobs it's not good if either the job/company does not offer opportunities (you'll learn the job and then leave).

ahh apologies for not reading the the whole thread
I thought it was just a general question!

bendix

Money. Pure and simple.

Who would work if they could afford not to?

terra_ferma

bendix wrote: »

Money. Pure and simple.

Who would work if they could afford not to?

This thread is about what answer you'd give at a job interview, not what motivates you in you current job.
I hope that's not the answer you'd give at an interview, if it is good luck!

eamon

But don't you wonder why those at the top of the economic pile apparently need vast amounts of money to do their jobs whilst much lower down we are obliged to have altruistic motives as our primary concern.

terra_ferma

eamon wrote: »

But don't you wonder why those at the top of the economic pile apparently need vast amounts of money to do their jobs whilst much lower down we are obliged to have altruistic motives as our primary concern.

We are simply talking about job interviews here, not about the fairness of our society.
In this respect if you are a cleaner or the CEO of a large company, I very much doubt it makes much difference. If you don't show some kind of enthusiasm you are not going to get the job.
Personally I was not happy with badly paid jobs so I worked my way up to a better salary. Some people are disadvantage because of health, family situation etc, but most have the same option.

I may never be a CEO or fat cat, but I would not work the hours to get there either....

SueC_2

eamon wrote: »

But don't you wonder why those at the top of the economic pile apparently need vast amounts of money to do their jobs whilst much lower down we are obliged to have altruistic motives as our primary concern.

Nope, I accept that the higher up the tree you get,, the more responsibility and accountability you have, and the more pressure you are under.

I don't begrudge senior management their pay, because (in most cases) I believe they deserve it.

To a certain degree I see their situation as something to aspire to, although I accept that I don't have the level of dedication or determination to make it all the way, and am not prepared to make all the necessary sacrifices. The fact that they do reiterates my belief that they deserve their salaries. It's my fault, not theirs, that I don't earn the same.

jdx

It used to be results, a good team and more so now, money!!! Sorry that's the truth. Money.

Pagg

When I was working full time for the same employer for years in a seemingly secure job? More money. Better prospects. Advancing my career.

Since I got made redundant? A job. Not having to sign on. Not feeling despondent because I had no job.

Becoming unemployed does change your expectations for the worst, without a shadow of a doubt. Having said that I'm lucky in that I've been brought up to never take on debts I can't afford (the only debt I have is my mortgage and I'm unmarried with no tin lids or an ex-spouse on alimony, call me Scrooge).

I have managed to get a new job, on a lot less than before, and my expectations are changed. It's a job now. A means to pay the bills.