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To use your example of someone working on the plumbing of an accounts payable system, who is passionate about that? The supply is near zero. That, like most j
by terminalshort 6mo ago
To use your example of someone working on the plumbing of an accounts payable system, who is passionate about that? The supply is near zero. That, like most jobs, is going to need to be done entirely by people who are just doing it for the money, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Your example runs counter to the laws of supply and demand too. You understand that wages will rise when supply is restricted, but you don't want to accept that supply will respond to the price signal in the form of more people entering that job market.
- bryanrasmussen 6mo ago> That, like most jobs, is going to need to be done entirely by people who are just doing it for the money why then do they all have those interview rounds where you have to talk about what really attracted you to work at this boring company and how you would love to do that kind of work? They evidently haven't gotten the memo.
- raw_anon_1111 6mo agoI have never once pretended to be “passionate” about working. Never wrote a single line of code that I haven’t gotten paid for since I graduated from college 30 years ago. I was a hobbyist before college for 6 years. I’ve gone through the BigTech guantlet successfully. Even then I showed I cared about doing my job well and competently. I have purposefully thrown nuggets out during interviews letting companies know that I had a life outside of work, I’m not going to work crazy hours and in the latter half of my career, I don’t do on call.
- terminalshort 6mo ago[flagged]
- tomhow 6mo agoWe've banned this account. We can't have vile comments like some of the ones your account has posted in recent days, without taking any action, if we're to have any standards at all here.