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Why do they need to be 'happy' about it, though? I'd be willing to use any of those, but I wouldn't enjoy working with them as much as I would with others. Does that mean I have a "wanky" attitude and immediately disqualify me?

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This one is good question. Why do all hiring people want you to be UBER happy to work for them and if you are not extremely aroused when you think about their company name they will not want to hire you.

I can be super happy to work for company after year or so when I get to know how it is to work there. Before that I can be interested or looking forward to get to know how it is working for them.

Yes, some employees' obsession with people having to love their jobs is so weird. I can't imagine someone looking at a job description and exclaiming "wow, I love this!". Maybe after a year, though. When they actually know what they're supposed to do, and are invested in the work on some level.

> Yes, some employees'

Meant to write 'employers'.

They believe (with good reason) that the more excited the candidate, the lower the compensation they'll take to snag that coveted position.

The real problem is that landlords, grocery stores and, in particular, pubs don't really understand when you tell them that the reason one can't pay that bill is because one hasn't yet came across a role in a super cool company, with wonderful customer experience around a product that one loved to the point of wanting to have sex with it, jazzy open space office and relaxed, integrating company culture, that scores 12 on the Joel Test!

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