Are you truly passionate about your job or have we forgotten what the word means?

I think we have reached Peak Passion. I saw an advertisement this year, for an accounting technicians course which asked the question of those potentially interested: “Are you passionate about accounting? Take your passion one step further with our accounting qualifications.”

Before I douse the passion, let me say I find it perfectly plausible that accounting might evoke strong feelings.

Anyone who has ever done business studies in school will remember how pleasure and pain were on two sides of a skinny coin when it came to adding up that thing where you were supposed to get the same answer in the left column and the right column.