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if you're working as an employee for someone else, it's not your passion. it's their business and your misplaced enthusiasm.
by metaphorm 10y ago
if you're working as an employee for someone else, it's not your passion. it's their business and your misplaced enthusiasm.
- FilterSweep 10y agoTrue but its also your rent check and food money while you (hopefully) build the skills and experience to come up with your own.
- metaphorm 10y agoyes, precisely. that is a pragmatic attitude that ought to be sufficient to prevent heartbreak and career dislocation. however, it is clear that many people are not so pragmatic and act with greater naivety and do get exploited by taking a job as an employee in something they have enthusiasm for, and conflating that with their passion, inevitably leading to a poor outcome for them.