This guy has some good thoughts, but his main points are way off (from 20+ years in sw engineering). Here's why. Passion might follow mastery sometimes, but us

This guy has some good thoughts, but his main points are way off (from 20+ years in sw engineering). Here's why. Passion might follow mastery sometimes, but usually it is the other way around. My advice is to figure out what you're passionate about-then figure out if there is a way to monetize that passion that makes sense for the lifestyle you want. He has a good description when he says "Roughly speaking, work can be broken down into a job, a career, or a calling. A job pays the bills; a career is a path towards increasingly better work; a calling is work that is an important part of your life and a vital part of your identity.". Then he adds"(Clearly most people want their work to be a calling.)". Nope. There are lots of people for whom their work is not even in their top two priorities. There's nothing wrong with them or the folks for whom their work is a calling. However, food for thought...as a founder in the tech business, do you really want to hire anyone in a tech or marketing position who's work is not their calling? That said, people who's work is their calling are rare, and they tend to be very good, which makes them expensive. However, I don't think that 10 bad devs are not better than one really good one - so the old saying 'you get what you pay for holds true', they're worth it. In short...find your calling, and follow it - just realize it might not be your work.