Passion & Commitment

Tonite, I attended the IEE HK branch for young engineers Kick-off conference today. The guest speaker is the chairman of the board and he shared about the engineering lif across every engineering fields in HK. He highlighted 2 important tips for the graduating students, in choosing jobs - 1) Commitment 2) Passion

It sounds a bit funny for me as a working profession for over 3 years to listen such kind of talk again. If I was back then when still in school, I would accept it totally. But now, working for a few years, I don't really see such things in my office. I don't hear say they work very hard because they have a passion for the things they do, but for the $$ they earn instead. They want to indulge their lives into it 99% of their life, not because they are committed to the people their job cater, but in order to prais their boss or at least not to make them grumbling. Yeah yeah yeah, it's all seems to be the realistic and practical side of the working life, but is it totally rubbish? Am I too naive if I try to give a thought to it? I still don't see how one can sustain through the job by looking towards the pay cheque every month. There seems to be something more than that, alighing with the "values" of the practical world. Living in this business world, these 2 tips just seems like the lost creed but yet important motivations next to $$.

In the end, he made a good point. In the beginning of career,
we would undergo ups and downs, which is normal, and that passion and commitment would definitely develop when time goes by. (If one is not eroded by the "values" of practical world or can still be naive enough to think so!)