You have to work outside of work now or you're passionless
Posted Aug 28, 2023, 1:57 PM UTC
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I do things related to my career for fun, but I work in a field that is honestly my passion. There is nothing wrong with working at a job that isn't your passion. It's such a weird pressure we put on people.
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So obviously you aren't "passionless" if you don't do the same thing you do for work as a hobby. I agree with you on that, and the point you're making about work outside of work. However OOP (the original 4chan anon)'s characterization of the issue sounds very.... specific to them to put it kindly.
For many people, coding is a hobby before it's a job, if it's a job at all. Ofc I can understand someone with a purely occupational relationship with it facing some misunderstandings and prejudiced from their peers and becoming resentful for it. But it doesn't make what they say any less individual. People aren't lying or trying to farm clout when they say they find coding or other IT stuff fun, they're just different than anon. Also, the weird anti-autistic submissiveness is an oof. Computer-related professions are full of autistics anyway, so the point they're trying to make falls flat.
Yes I agree with you for the most part, but coming from somebody who tried to get into the computer science field, it becomes a problem whenever that sort of passion and never stop working attitude becomes expected. I can't tell you how many times I was told that to be successful in that field you had to dedicate all of your free time to it. I don't have a problem with the people who have a passion in it, I have a problem with the people who gatekeep the profession and make it a requirement to have that type of dedication. You shouldn't need to have that type of passion to have any job or career, not everyone is passionate about working at all.