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Frankly, no, it's not a codeword for unpaid overtime, it means "you will likely just make everyone depressed with your attitude." You don't need to be passiona

Frankly, no, it's not a codeword for unpaid overtime, it means "you will likely just make everyone depressed with your attitude." You don't need to be passionate about insurance, but you need to be able to show some enthusiasm about building software for insurance, which likely has a lot of exciting challenges (in addition to 90% boring work, as does almost any job). You don't need to be passionate about web agencies, but you need to at least understand what's cool about working at an agency (in addition to what's not). Finance is "boring" to you? There are tons of interesting tech challenges in finance. If you describe every job as boring then the problem might be you. Nobody is going to hire you just because you can code if you have a negative attitude about what everyone there spends their days doing. Why would they?

cesarbs 10y ago
You make it seem like not being excited equals having a negative attitude that brings everyone down. There are many shades of grey between those two. I've worked on boring stuff that I wasn't excited about, but I didn't have a negative attitude at work. Every day I just came in, did what had to be done, went home. AFAIK my past co-workers and managers all appreciated my work. I can empathize with what OP is saying. I've never been rejected myself for "lack of passion", but I know people who have interviewed perfectly fine candidates in terms of logic reasoning and technical aptitude and rejected them for this bullshit reason. I don't understand this current expectation that you can't just do a good job at what you do, no, you have to be all starry eyed about it and thinking of it even in your dreams. There's more to life than work.
- personlurking 10y ago
  There's a QI (UK show) clip about this topic. Although the discussion is geared towards customer service, I think it still fits here. It's 45 seconds long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LiDTKEF1ek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LiDTKEF1ek
  - J-dawg 10y ago
    Here's more David Mitchell on the subject of passion. I think the OP will probably agree! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz2-49q6DOI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz2-49q6DOI

cesarbs 10y ago

You make it seem like not being excited equals having a negative attitude that brings everyone down. There are many shades of grey between those two. I've worked on boring stuff that I wasn't excited about, but I didn't have a negative attitude at work. Every day I just came in, did what had to be done, went home. AFAIK my past co-workers and managers all appreciated my work. I can empathize with what OP is saying. I've never been rejected myself for "lack of passion", but I know people who have interviewed perfectly fine candidates in terms of logic reasoning and technical aptitude and rejected them for this bullshit reason. I don't understand this current expectation that you can't just do a good job at what you do, no, you have to be all starry eyed about it and thinking of it even in your dreams. There's more to life than work.

personlurking 10y ago
There's a QI (UK show) clip about this topic. Although the discussion is geared towards customer service, I think it still fits here. It's 45 seconds long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LiDTKEF1ek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LiDTKEF1ek
- J-dawg 10y ago
  Here's more David Mitchell on the subject of passion. I think the OP will probably agree! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz2-49q6DOI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz2-49q6DOI