[kerbalspacepro]

The point of a job should be to improve the world. The point of a career is to be able to do more impactful jobs by increasing skill and understanding.

Personality and job fit are only important as far as they allow you to do the job better.

[qntty]

Do you understand why I would call this perspective robotic though? I could never live like that. The reason I take a job is because I think it will improve my life. A paycheck is obviously part of that, but so is doing a job I enjoy. I would prefer a job that does 10 units of good and gives me 10 units of pleasure to a job that does 20 units of good and gives me 2 units of pleasure.

[rytill]

That makes sense. But do you see why it might be conflicting to some people if they have the chance to do, say, 40 units of good for 8 pleasure instead of 10 for 10? Where do you draw the line?