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> I don't know if it's always true for people, but my performance goes up and down quite a lot depending on how much I believe in the group mission and the grou
by dave250 4y ago
> I don't know if it's always true for people, but my performance goes up and down quite a lot depending on how much I believe in the group mission and the group dynamic. I'll occasionally stay late working for some abstract metric that might impact 10% of my pay, but I'll stay up 48 hours working fanatically to make something work for my friends and co-workers and the dream of success in changing the world that the group is striving for together.
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I think it is primarily people who find a strong sense of identity in work and careers that think this way. For many, their passions lie outside of work and they do indeed want to maximize their value and time so that they can focus on things they care about.
So to say filtering out "greedy people" is quite demeaning IMO.
- lanstin 4y agoI don't mean the "slackers" that want to go home at a reasonable time and hike the Appalachian trail or rescue lost mountain climbers or whatever, I mean the ambitious types that worry if they are getting 185K USD instead of 205K USD rather than on making the digital transformation a really cool thing for humanity, and making products that they are proud to try to explain to their families.
- pinewurst 4y agoAs I feel the "digital transformation" is mostly handwaving BS, indeed it takes that increment of compensation (as much as possible!) not to perseverate on the worthlessness of that buzzword. I'm in the midst of changing jobs right now because I'd rather devote my efforts to the honorable (IMHO) concrete instead of being the DT advocate (one of the parts of my current job).