[alinajaf]

Question for HN, how do you generally feel about the 'Intrinsically Motivated' requirement?

I'm deeply motivated about a great many things that are important to me, but helping to implement or maintain someone elses idea isn't one of them.

For a price I'd be happy to turn up and give you eight hours of hard work per day. I take pride in my work, am passionate about improving my skills and would do my best to translate them into tangible benefits for your organization.

But my motivation for doing so would be mostly based on a financial arrangement, in other words, extrinsic. Does that someone like me shouldn't apply for a job posting like this or am I misunderstanding?

[lifeisstillgood]

Recently I saw a post that quoted

  Derive your self-worth from the process not the output.
   

The first you control, code quality, integrity, professional communication with team mates etc. The second is not entirely within your control and should not lead to anxiety.

Anyway, I would want to hire someone like that - more intrinsically motivated, than someone who is focused on building Facebook for dogs for an IPO.

I would pay good money, but not expect commitment to the mission, just commitment to intrinsically good code and practises.

That's my take