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Passion doesn’t pay out for most people. Companies pay you to come in and do things everyone else didn’t want to do or couldn’t do. How much salary would you g

• nikisweeting 6y ago
  I mean I've given up $150k/yr+ in opportunity cost for years to work on stuff I'm passionate about. But over time that has paid off in many more ways than the money would have. But that's a privilege only accessible to people with their base needs met, so it shouldn't be used as a sole filter for candidates without other ways for people to prove competence.
• Nasrudith 6y ago
  Passion seems to be an effect judged as a cause. If you work with pure pointless tedium for boxchecking, are micromanaged, have your inputs ignored and are 'not paid to think', or have to print and physically file a TPS report with a cover page for every Git revision the pointlessness grates which leads to not expressing passion. Cynical exploitation aside employers prefer peo Someone offering a salary reduction for passion clearly isn't going to provide motivation any more than a suitor who just asks about how much money you or your parents make and how much is willed to you would love you. But "work on a small team without the bueracracy on something neat but we can't pay AAA salary" does pull experienced employees from the big guys who want a change of pace.