Reignite Your Passion for Web Design
Singapore is ranked as one of the top 10 busiest places in the world according to listcrux.com, partly because of its “kiasu” culture where everyone works hard and neglects work-life balance.
Web design is a very competitive industry, web designers are very prone to demotivation, which is also called burnout. Burnout can cause loss of passion, and affect quality of work produced, it is usually caused by overload of work and also a lack of excitement to work.
Below are a few ways that we tried ourselves which might be able to help you get out of burnout too.
Talk to your peers
If anyone can understand your feelings of burnout, it is the other web professionals. They are likely to have experienced something similar before and talking to them can help you get excited about web design again.
Attending a web conference is one of the best ways to meet and interact with other web professionals. Listening to presentations from the best of the industry is likely to motivate and inspire you. Of course, conferences do not happen frequently and are often quite expensive, do consider a local meetup group for web design instead. And the good news is there are quite a few interest group on meetup.com for Singapore.
Take a break
This may sound like a no-brainer, but taking a break is one of the best ways to stay creative and motivated. This is why companies give their employees vacation time! Traveling is one of the best way to completely relax yourself and do things such as reading books on any subject to refresh yourself and your mind. It is however understandable that taking a long break can lead up loss of income, hence proper planning is necessary in terms of expenses and also keeping yourself updated with your industry.
Teach Others
Teaching others allow you to share your knowledge, and even get paid. It allows you to view your industry and job in a different light, by inspiring and enlightening others, and the best part is, you can get connections and re-emphasis your understanding about web design at the same time.
Do something you are passionate about
Not everyone can go and take a break, but you can definitely do something you are passionate about, such as playing the drums, play video games, exercising, go on a midnight cycle trip, and all those amazing things that you want to do.
Use your skills for charity
Many charity organizations need web designers, but do not have the budget to do so. Your skills will be a valuable asset to the organization. Pick one of your choice and start doing something good for your community, in no time you will be appreciated and you will find your passion for web design burning again.