I know we tend to talk a lot about passion, but I find that more often than not “passion” means being willing to work anyway between five to forty hours of unpaid overtime.
@AstonJ asked in another thread about what sort of interests people in our trade have outside of work.
I’m going to ask what seems to me the logical converse of their question: If you’re only in tech for the money, what would you rather be doing?
Are you happy with your life? Are you content with your working conditions? Do you approve of the uses to which your work is put?
Or are you just pretending to be in order to remain employable because we don’t look out for each other and force management, founders, and venture capitalists to bargain with us as equals?