Right - you want to be professional, you want to do the best that you can do, but you cannot care about your employer more than the employer cares about themsel

Right - you want to be professional, you want to do the best that you can do, but you cannot care about your employer more than the employer cares about themselves. Sort of a mercenary attitude - which you always are. This is really the practice of zen and detachment in work and life. Care, but not to the point where is starts to hurt you.