Re:Ask HN: What motivates you to do what you do?
by nvarsj on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:22AM
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I don't think OP is talking about Doctors without Borders. He's talking about the super hyped engineer at a big Ad company who says she's extremely passionate about her job. This sort of attitude is very common in the U.S., in my experience.
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Re:Ask HN: What motivates you to do what you do?
by cmorelli on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:25AM
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Ok, sure, but the OP didn't qualify his/her statements that 90%+ of us are lying when we say we're anything other than financially motivated. I'm attacking the assertion that we simply can't be intrinsically motivated by things that matter to us.
That said, I do know engineers that work at startups and actually are pumped by the vision - they're excited about what they're building and what it could mean for the future.