Wherefore art thou graduate level job...

I seem to have missed the point at which everybody decided what they wanted to do with their lives. Perhaps i fell asleep and missed the visit from the magical aspiration fairy, or perhaps i am simply impervious to ambition. At what point did earning enough money to live comfortably become an inadequate reason for wanting a job? Am I really the only person willing to apply for a position in a field that I don't ave an intense passion for?! I like things, of course i do; but nobody seems willing to pay me to eat, take naps and smell flowers all day. Is it not enough that I promise to work hard to do what is required of me?

I think there is something quite sinister about stipulating mandatory passion! How far can this trend be stretched? In the future will job applicants be required to display overwhelming romantic devotion to management staff? Will people be expected to literally marry their jobs, adding LTD. to the end of their surnames and spending every other Christmas with their parent-in-law companies? What would the children look like?! I daren't imagine.

Problems would surely arise regarding the gender of the jobs to which individuals would be matrimonially attached; what with same sex marriage being such a contentious issues in some quarters. Perhaps this would encourage divergence from traditional gender roles in the work place. A man applying for a male role could be interpreted as homosexual and so would perhaps be more inclined to consider work as a child minder or party planner, whereas heterosexual women would be drawn to the sciences and high powered roles in senior management. 

I suppose I can forgive those companies who demand my devotion, their feminist plight is a worthwhile enough cause. I just hope that by the time I finish my masters I will be on track to find 'The One' that is worthy of the career based lust that is clearly required for entry into the workforce.