Passion for Work

[DaveJ]

There are certain naive childish notions I have not grown out of despite knowing they do not apply in the real world.

Foremost, is the idea that one's work is something that one should deeply care about.

If I were an interviewer (no chance of that, lol) my main criteria would be whether or not the applicant has a passion for that job. Even if they do not have the best experience, that would be it. But I do not see that, in most hiring these days. Hiring is done, possibly for legal reasons, based on a matrix of requirements and I would guess that nearly mathematical calculations are used to determine who should be hired. This is not good for humanity.

I think people should pursue their passion, and employers should facilitate that, because it is good for business. Fitting people into the machine like cogs is not necessarily the best approach. I'd rather have a moderately skilled plumber fix my sink who loves his job, than a slightly more skilled plumber who doesn't care about his job or his work. I believe the former would stand behind his work and take it as a personal afront if there were something wrong and fix it. The latter, would just move on and forget about it.

People say that the world cannot be changed, but this is one thing I would want to change.