I'm Not a Passionate Developer
It always bothers me that everyone seems to think that non-passionate devs will be lazy and do crap work.<p>When you go to the grocery store, some cashiers are better at their job than others, right? Probably most of them, good or bad, don’t love their jobs and are not passionate about “cashiering”, but some <i>care</i> about doing a good job regardless.<p>I probably wouldn’t be considered a passionate dev, I don’t have open source projects for example. But I do care about my work and try to do it as good as I know&#x2F;can. After all, even if I don’t do programming out of working hours, I still have 40 hours weekly devoted to it, so that’s plenty of time to practice.<p>Not to mention that I’ve met incredibly passionate devs… that were passionate about <i>their</i> stuff, not their employer’s. I’ve caught some of them working on their open source stuff during working hours, in fact.