[ajsnigrutin]

Maybe with the population of this site this is more true than the most, but I'd still consider it a minority, even here.

I doubt many plumbers cite a love of modern world development, when they get hired for fixing toilets, or that people assembling washing machines have a passion for clean clothes for other people... or even people working for google don't really have that much passion for collecting other peoples personal data and exploiting it to show ads.

[ht_th]

No, but they might like the sort of projects the organization does with respect to complexity, or that they mostly serve governmental buildings, or that they work in the community they're part of, etc. In the end, you have to make a choice between organizations to work for, and usually they all pay more or less the same. So, what's then the deciding factor?

By the way, this definitely doesn't mean to glorify an organization and what they're doing. Far from it. They're just in it for continued existence and making some money, I suppose. But it is nice if an organization has some social utility, as compared to, say, sell advertisements for crap no-one needs. And I think, if that's important to you, you can refer to that when you're applying for a job.

Of course, if you're working in a field where there's much more candidates than jobs, this is pretty meaningless because you have to take whatever comes your way.

[em-bee]

indeed this.

there is a difference between the choice of profession and the choice of company after learning the profession.

above we were discussion which tech company to work for, because most of us here are in tech. but tech companies have a wide variety of business goals and practices.

plumbers not so much. they do plumbing. they all have the same business goal, the differences are where they operate and how nice the coworkers are and the work conditions and pay.

for a tech company it makes sense to ask, do i like their product, independent of the job i'll be doing there. for a plumber not really.