I said earning more money, not having a goal of being wealthy. Increasing your earnings and getting rich are certainly two different end goals. I don't think you mean to imply that simply desiring to increase one's income means that one has a passion for earning money or wants to become wealthy, do you?
Sometimes you need to find the most efficient way to pay the bills for your family. Not everyone who drives a truck, screens your lab samples, designs the print on your bedsheets, or fixes your car is necessarily passionate about those fields. Same for development -- some folks are getting into it because they need better jobs, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
The "follow your passion" advice wasn't so rampant in previous eras in the US, such as the postwar and Depression eras, because many people didn't have the luxury to explore what they WANTED to do; they sucked it up and did what they HAD to do. Today with inflation and wage stagnation, many people can't afford to follow their passions (it's just more hidden today because everyone is in debt or two paychecks away from disaster). I enjoy coding and have moments of flow, dream about my code, etc, but I'm not passionate about programming as a pursuit. A person can be passionate about programming and create awesome code, but be a terrible communicator, lack empathy, or disregard the client's wishes. Have they still created a good product?
Saying not everyone has to be passionate about their job in order to produce great work != my "passion is earning more money". I just happen to have a passion for paying rent, traveling to visit relatives, having health insurance, etc., which are things most devs can enjoy.
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I said earning more money, not having a goal of being wealthy. Increasing your earnings and getting rich are certainly two different end goals. I don't think you mean to imply that simply desiring to increase one's income means that one has a passion for earning money or wants to become wealthy, do you?
Sometimes you need to find the most efficient way to pay the bills for your family. Not everyone who drives a truck, screens your lab samples, designs the print on your bedsheets, or fixes your car is necessarily passionate about those fields. Same for development -- some folks are getting into it because they need better jobs, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
The "follow your passion" advice wasn't so rampant in previous eras in the US, such as the postwar and Depression eras, because many people didn't have the luxury to explore what they WANTED to do; they sucked it up and did what they HAD to do. Today with inflation and wage stagnation, many people can't afford to follow their passions (it's just more hidden today because everyone is in debt or two paychecks away from disaster). I enjoy coding and have moments of flow, dream about my code, etc, but I'm not passionate about programming as a pursuit. A person can be passionate about programming and create awesome code, but be a terrible communicator, lack empathy, or disregard the client's wishes. Have they still created a good product?
Saying not everyone has to be passionate about their job in order to produce great work != my "passion is earning more money". I just happen to have a passion for paying rent, traveling to visit relatives, having health insurance, etc., which are things most devs can enjoy.