Depression is like a powerful spell, no matter what you do you know you can't beat it until it's done doing its thing.
Best thing you can possibly do is give them direction. Tell them what to do, keep them occupied all the time! I get serious depression once or twice a year and even though I know what's going on I have no control over it and I'm always afraid I might do something radical which I might regret later.
Unfortunately I live alone, but I wish I had someone to take control of me during those phases of depression. Someone to keep telling me what to do and keep a tab on me making sure I do all those things until I get well again.
Don't force yourself to do something you obviously don't want to do. If you have to motivate and convince yourself, it's clearly not important enough. You're just pissing against the wind making yourself miserable.
Lucky for you IT is one of those fields where a university degree isn't a requirement. Just do what you want to do. If you want to be a developer then start a project, contribute to one and put that on your CV and look for a Dev job.
No person is the same they were years ago, stop obsessing over what you believe should happen and just go with the flow of the moment. Instead of planning your life to the detail ask yourself how do you feel in this very moment and understand that's is perfectly acceptable to change your mind many times down the road.
In this day and age with the freedom of choice and information overload we tend to be prone to short attention span. Suddenly we learn that we can do everything so we keep changing interests all the time and never finish anything. We want everything and want it now, then we learn we can't have it and we get depressed.
It's OK not to do something! It's OK to leave IT and come back to it later, it's OK to work hard to become a Developer and then quit suddenly and work as a gardener. It's OK to start programming when you're sixty. As long as you accept that, you'll be just fine. If you have to fight with your inner self and force yourself to do what you and others believe you ought to be doing, then you'll never be at ease. You'll always be depressed, demoralised, unmotivated and anxious.
I feel sorry for people who commute more than 15 min to work each way. Those people don't value themselves since they think their time isn't worth much if anything. How much is 1h of your life worth?
lol are you on drugs or something? never in the last 18 years or so have I experienced a single missed of failed txt message, if you live in the woods it doesn't matter what you use, your internet connectivity will drop too you know
I don't mind paying $5 for something, but that something is 20 different services that adds up to a lot of money. Everything is subscription-based these days, including mobile apps.
This thread makes me think we should tighten entrance requirements for non-EEA citizens. We got plenty of our unemployed people, least thing we need is more immigrants from outside Europe.
Maybe you guys just don't know what you're doing? I mean asking complete strangers on the internet how to lead your team doesn't really strike confidence in me. Perhaps you should start with the titles. CEO is someone managing a corporation of thousands of people, not a 9-person start-up. Sorry for being crude and blunt.