People see it as more acceptable to make passionate employees do extra: study
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#2If I love my job, then I'm not being taken advantage of (from my perspective). If I'm being taken advantage of, that is a strong force to get me to hate my job.
Whether or not my supervisors think they're taking advantage of me is a different matter, and one that is largely irrelevant to me.
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#3Companies don’t care about anything that doesn’t drive the bottom line.
Re: People see it as more acceptable to make passionate employees do extra: study
#4If I love my job, then I'm not being taken advantage of (from my perspective). If I'm being taken advantage of, that is a strong force to get me to hate my job. Whether or not my supervisors think they're taking advantage of me is a different matter, and one that is largely irrelevant to me.
Its like if spanking was your fetish but the person spanking you believes they are punishing you. It's irrelevant to the person being spanked as long as they enjoy it.
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#5If you hate your job, someone may be taking advantage of you.
If you love your job, someone may be taking advantage of you.
Someone may be taking advantage of you. Or not. Who knows?
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#6Well, it goes both ways.
I love my job because it's not that difficult, it pays really well, and it's something I've had experience with for decades.
I can get most of my work done in the span of 2 hours/day and have time left over to work on my side business. My boss is extremely happy with my work and I actually have been making more progress than most of the previous developers in my position.
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#7If I love my job, then I'm not being taken advantage of (from my perspective). If I'm being taken advantage of, that is a strong force to get me to hate my job. Whether or not my supervisors think they're taking advantage of me is a different matter, and one that is largely irrelevant to me.
I used to think the same way when I was passionate about my job in my previous company. However now I feel I was exploited and may be got burnt out due to that. Also I was not working on any altruist project so my passion probably didn't help make this world better.
I think it is important to balance passion with your personal and social commitments. I hope you are doing that.
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#8Of course. I long developed that inner rule: whenever i am going to execute any business transaction and know i will not feel guilty as a result, i am going to be taken advantage of and should not do it.
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#9Outside of tech, there are certainly industries that thrive on low-paid junior workers and get away with it because there are so many desperate for a "foot in the door" that they don't have to pay more e.g. entertainment, most D.C. gov jobs.
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#10If I love my job, then I'm not being taken advantage of (from my perspective). If I'm being taken advantage of, that is a strong force to get me to hate my job. Whether or not my supervisors think they're taking advantage of me is a different matter, and one that is largely irrelevant to me.
Not necessarily. You could love your job and compensation and all ... but that could change when you realize someone of your rank is earning double for the same work.
"Loving" is not binary. There might be room to love it even more, especially if they stop taking advantage of you.