Although I'm a full-time programmer, the best and worst job I ever had was as a bookseller at a major bookstore chain. When I first got there, my coworkers wer

Although I'm a full-time programmer, the best and worst job I ever had was as a bookseller at a major bookstore chain. When I first got there, my coworkers were passionate about books--it was something the store manager looked for when she hired. It was a fantastic place and time to be there. When the store manager was promoted out of the position, she was replaced by a more corporate type who had different hiring criteria. In a little over a year, she turned the place into just another job because she hired people that had no passion. The ones that did left. It became another 9 to 5, and I think the store suffered because of it.