[wwww4all]

Passion doesn’t pay out for most people. Companies pay you to come in and do things everyone else didn’t want to do or couldn’t do.

How much salary would you give up for passion?

https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-07-20

There are lots of amazing, passionate YouTube, tik tok performers. Only very few make any money.

[nikisweeting]

I mean I've given up $150k/yr+ in opportunity cost for years to work on stuff I'm passionate about. But over time that has paid off in many more ways than the money would have. But that's a privilege only accessible to people with their base needs met, so it shouldn't be used as a sole filter for candidates without other ways for people to prove competence.

[Nasrudith]

Passion seems to be an effect judged as a cause. If you work with pure pointless tedium for boxchecking, are micromanaged, have your inputs ignored and are 'not paid to think', or have to print and physically file a TPS report with a cover page for every Git revision the pointlessness grates which leads to not expressing passion. Cynical exploitation aside employers prefer peo

Someone offering a salary reduction for passion clearly isn't going to provide motivation any more than a suitor who just asks about how much money you or your parents make and how much is willed to you would love you.

But "work on a small team without the bueracracy on something neat but we can't pay AAA salary" does pull experienced employees from the big guys who want a change of pace.