I don't know why but no matter how many times I read this I feel like I'm misunderstanding the point? This reads like something a CEO would post in linkedin to me.
Agreed. At first blush it reads more like that “Find a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life” kind of sentiment.
Yeah it's giving major "passion economy" vibes where they try to rebrand exploitation as freedom so you'll accept lower wages becuase you're doing what you "love" 🙄
Yeah I think I get it and that it's right but then again it's a little hard to tell.
Also reads petty similar to the sign over the front door of Auschwitz
As a nurse, I still value my free time. I can love what I do, but that doesn’t replace having a normal life outside of work. If all I ever did was work I would quickly die
No but that's the point.
Love what you do, enjoy it as you would a weekend, but, like the weekend, when you stop enjoying what you're doing you stop and go do something else.
It's all just time. Work and free time are just moments. We should be the ones in charge of how we spend them.
Obviously, there are caveats and nuances, such as mutual agreements about certain obligations to ensure necessary services are always available, but that gets into nitty gritty about work place authority structures and ownership over means of production and yada yada.
Well, the issue is that when you are being rewarded for the work you are doing, the motivation for why you are doing it changes: and the higher is the reward, the less you stay interested in doing things (with very rare exceptions). That was noticed during some researches [wanted to reference some, though can't find links quickly], and it kind of makes a definition of "work" to work differently than "have a passion and you won't work a day".
That is a reason why we need this distinction: not all people need to be incentivised by money for literally everythign they do. Sometimes people need to do something just because they want to, over what they need to to get going with their lives.
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