Stat of the Week: 91% think their boss respects them

Re:Stat of the Week: 91% think their boss respects them by JonathanFields on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @11:01AM (#1834451)

What's interesting, though, is that when you scroll back a few links on the same site, they reference a survey that showed 82% are not passionate about their work.

http://blog.rypple.com/2010/10/82-arent-passionate-about-the...

Bolsters the argument that passion comes more from inside, not from external validation.

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Re:Stat of the Week: 91% think their boss respects them by j_baker on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:50PM (#1834944)

There are other reasons for people to not be passionate about their job. That said, having a boss who doesn't respect you can seriously sap your motivation.

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Re:Stat of the Week: 91% think their boss respects them by Tamerlin on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @02:01PM (#1839714)

At amazon, I got stuck adding features to software that had already been deprecated... three years before I joined.

Not only was I not passionate about that, but since it was the first time I'd encountered code with lower quality and even more antiquated technology than what I'd found in government contracting, I was truly contemptuous about what I was doing.

If you get stuck with work that doesn't require ANY of the skills that the interviewers grill you for, it's hard to care about your job, let alone be passionate about it.

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