The new book by Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, resonated. Why can’t your motivation for doing a job just be to pay your bills? I for a long time have not bought the line of many bosses about their company being “family”. After all it would be a lousy family if periodically you would layoff several members.
Here is a short review of the book from Marie Claire.
Here the author is interviewed by Democracy Now!
I believe the following applies as well to engineering and development jobs:
And even when we’re working in the conditions of white collar work like journalism, in many cases [those jobs] have a lot more in common with insecure gig work than we would like to think.
Food for thought.