However, if the job market environment is shaped by it so that every job expects an applicant whose life goals are integrally aligned to performing the job, it plausibly affects what kind of goals people think are thinkable when they think of their life and careers, because it certainly affects how they present themselves to the hiring committee or people with equivalent power.
No matter what the market is like, your goals are not going to be 100% economical. I suppose many people value things like being healthy, being fit, reading books, watching movies, spending time with friends, spending time with family… but all of these are only valuable to you personally, no company is going to pay you for this. (Okay, there are some rare situations, like movie reviewers or professional sportsmen; but even then the reviewer is not paid for being fit, and the sportsman is not paid for watching movies.) So you already have the inevitable conflict between “whatever you want to be your career” and “all other personally valuable things”. And the market insisting on employees being passionate about their jobs pushes them to prioritize the former at expense of the latter.
It’s like a psychological ploy to make you feel guilty about having complex values and personal boundaries.
No matter what the market is like, your goals are not going to be 100% economical. I suppose many people value things like being healthy, being fit, reading books, watching movies, spending time with friends, spending time with family… but all of these are only valuable to you personally, no company is going to pay you for this. (Okay, there are some rare situations, like movie reviewers or professional sportsmen; but even then the reviewer is not paid for being fit, and the sportsman is not paid for watching movies.) So you already have the inevitable conflict between “whatever you want to be your career” and “all other personally valuable things”. And the market insisting on employees being passionate about their jobs pushes them to prioritize the former at expense of the latter.
It’s like a psychological ploy to make you feel guilty about having complex values and personal boundaries.