text: does anyone get frustrated at their jobs when creativity is limited?  what do you do? i am a writer and my job is writing, but on the technical side.  it is difficult to stay motivated sometimes because i can't be creative in my report writing.  any advice is welcome. put your creativity to other use. for instance, you say you are a writer, you can always make two versions when you write. the one being the limited and the other the creative. sometime soon, you'll find a use for your other writings. or you can write poems, short stories and send it to publications. who knows, it might get published. though your work has limitations, you still don't need to limit your creativity.