Engineer-turned-sociologist Erin Cech describes how she coined the term ‘passion principle’, which challenges the belief that people should love their jobs
Erin Cech started her academic life 22 years ago in electrical engineering, but found that the extra sociology classes she took as an undergraduate were more meaningful and relevant, so she swapped subjects. Now a sociologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, she argues in her 2021 bookthat choosing a profession you love can risk exploitation by employers and inequality in the workplace and, ironically, undermine productivity.
I looked at how potential employers evaluate applications and found that they are not only more likely to be interested in hiring an applicant who expresses passion for the work than someone who doesn’t, but also more likely to hire that person because they think they will put in more effort without an increase in compensation. So there’s an understanding of the potential labour that could be extracted from the passionate person.
Aren’t there downsides to not being passionate about your work? What about people who do boring, repetitive work who want passion?
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