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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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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.

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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