Ways to distinguish yourself – #2 Do your daily work with passion!

By Rajesh Setty on Wed 23 Feb 2005, 10:38 PM – 1 Comment

Tim Carter is an expert on home building, remodeling and repair. There

are millions that are out there who know this stuff. But Tim is

different. He has taken his trade to the extreme and built an empire at

Askthebuilder.com. Tim’s

eBooks on these topics are sold like hot cakes. His radio shows are

popular and his columns appear in 42 news papers.  Tim gets in

excess of 350,000 visitors per month on his site. Talk about Passion

for his work!

In a completely different setting, take the case

of Denise Meyers who carves native american icons on gourds. Denise

sells them for $6k or more a piece. Each masterpiece is a demonstration of passion at work!

Can we do anything similar in the technology business?

It’s

hard work if we are one among the millions of Java programmers that are

out there in the world. The question to ask is not how many java

programmers are there in the world but to find out how many of these

java programmers are going about their jobs with true passion. How many

of them really are determined to make a difference to this world via

their jobs?

Our work will never be the same once we bring PASSION into the equation!

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• Pursuing your passion – Dave Maskin
• Ways to distinguish yourself #179 – Invent new possibilities daily

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