"Passionate"
2018-10-17
I often hear that people in tech should be “passionate” about their work.
I’d say that being “passionate” and being “professional” about work is almost mutually exclusive and I much prefer people who focus on the latter. 🔗
You’re passionate about the product you’re workin on? How will you take it if you get assigned to a different team? 🔗
Passionate about a programming language? Well we need you to fix a bug in this thing in a different language? I hope that’s not going to be a problem. 🔗
Sure, enjoying your work and caring about it is really important. But “passion” can lead to serious attachment issues. 🔗a