I'm Not a Passionate Developer
In all my jobs, I could not tell the difference between the &quot;passionate&quot; devs and the &quot;9-5&quot; devs. Both produced quality work (when they were quality people). Best dev I&#x27;ve worked with went home at 5 without his laptop and didn&#x27;t keep up with any news unless it would solve a problem we had a work.<p>There&#x27;s nothing wrong with side projects, being passionate about development, blogging, etc. but it should never mean that person is a quality engineer.