The Passion Trap
27th October 2010
The more emphasis you place on finding work you love, the more unhappy you become when you don’t love every minute of the work you have.
I hate passionate people. Passionate people are surrendering control over what they do to impulse and emotion. Such people are less than human.
I especially hate employers who want their subordinates to be ‘passionate’. That’s like employing convicted felons; sure, it might work out, but it has a lot of potential to end Very Badly.
I prefer being actionate myself. Actionate people get results; passionate people merely suffer entertainingly.
October 27th, 2010 at 18:41
Why do you have to be “passionate” about your job? Doesn’t that smack of adolescence? I can only see that as the road to disappointment. Find something that you enjoy, not necessarily that you are “passionate” about, and that you are reasonably good at doing. There’s your job, and it won’t mean that you have to love everything, just that things will be reasonable. Only a toddler expects to be entertained every waking moment.