<story><title>How some people stay motivated at work when they don’t love their jobs</title><url>https://qz.com/999209/how-some-people-stay-motivated-and-energized-at-work-even-when-they-dont-love-their-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s the well-known Simpson&amp;#x27;s image &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;do it for her&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;[1].&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m confused as to who he&amp;#x27;s writing for as it seems very obvious that many people get &amp;quot;motivated&amp;quot; for work they don&amp;#x27;t enjoy because they have to support their family.&lt;p&gt;For example, every time the word &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;passion&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; is thrown around on HN, it will incite people to respond: &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;fuck passion... I just want to work my 40 hours and go home and spend time with my family.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;7MkgTGT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;7MkgTGT.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;episode wiki: 
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;And_Maggie_Makes_Three&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;And_Maggie_Makes_Three&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How some people stay motivated at work when they don’t love their jobs</title><url>https://qz.com/999209/how-some-people-stay-motivated-and-energized-at-work-even-when-they-dont-love-their-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>creepydata</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m absolutely dumbfounded this is some sort of revelation to the author. It must be a new thing? Perhaps a product of the &amp;quot;self esteem&amp;#x2F;entitled generation?&amp;quot; Whenever I hear people (including job ads) talk about &amp;quot;passion&amp;quot; at work I have to roll my eyes. I &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; though of work as a means to some sort of personal fulfillment, it&amp;#x27;s a job, it&amp;#x27;s purpose is to provide you money. That is it! If you get personal satisfaction out of your work that&amp;#x27;s a nice bonus. Those &amp;quot;passion&amp;quot; people are going to become very dissatisfied with work and life - there&amp;#x27;s very, very few jobs that have the ability to provide that. We should probably be looking at things in a more practical manner to avoid this.&lt;p&gt;I always thought jobs advertising that they are looking for someone with &amp;quot;passion&amp;quot; as a ploy to trick the bright eyed and naïve young into overworking before they become disillusioned.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve actually enjoyed most of the &amp;quot;menial&amp;quot; jobs I&amp;#x27;ve worked. The only unenjoyable job I worked was only unenjoyable due to piss poor management. Now I enjoy working as a software engineer, I like what I do, but it&amp;#x27;s still just a job, just a way to earn a living.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m reminded of Office Space on career advice: &amp;quot;[The question from a guidance counselor of what you would do if you had a million dollars] is bullshit to begin with. If everyone listened to her there would be no janitors because because nobody would clean up shit if they had a million dollars.&amp;quot;</text></comment>