> Professionalism, not Passion > Yes, most of the time I only put in an eight hour day. That’s all you’re paying me for, and all I’m willing to give under norm

> Professionalism, not Passion > Yes, most of the time I only put in an eight hour day. That’s all you’re paying me for, and all I’m willing to give under normal circumstances because every hour I spend working for you as a developer is an hour I can’t spend working for myself as a novelist. > But when the shit gets real, I’m there. I don’t do it because I’m “passionate” about my work. I do it because that is what professionals do. Exactly. I completely agree. Even the most passionate worker will wake up one day and think "I don't feel like doing X today". That, imo, is what having a job is. Having to do something, in a set of rules, whether you want to or not. A worker doesn't need Passion, he needs Will and Professionalism. > Unless you’re my wife, the relevance of your feelings to me is best expressed as an imaginary floating point value between fuck-all and jack shit. I like the author and would probably buy him a beer.