mercenary

But plenty more may just be mercenary types, going where the money goes.

I think very few people would blame you for taking the mercenary approach here.

" Would they construct some elaborate raid on a nearby Office supplies store using a mercenary army of criminals?

What you want to show is that you respect yourself and are looking for the best fit for you and your career, not that you're a mercenary who is only going to be there because of $5-10k in marginal compensation.

But even more specifically, I would look to find somebody whose interests are in my domain, as they will always have better ideas and motivation than a strictly mercenary engineer.

You often have to take a mercenary attitude toward transfers and job changes and, if your boss isn't personally interested in your career growth, balance out the universe by stealing an education.

At the end of the article, the author explains how "once a good developer recognizes his/her own value, [she turns] to either an individualist-mercenary mindset or a collectivist guild-like mindset.

The last thing it needs is a bunch of annoying startups invading, all crowing about "untapped markets" and how "passionate" they are to enable social this-or-that--an act which invariably strikes me as mercenary and disingenuous.

And in fairness, these requirements exist for good reasons, because for every artsy type that runs such an event in a reasonable responsible fashion, there's a greedy promoter that will do the same sort of thing for purely mercenary purposes and who is willing to sacrifice the safety of the guests on the altar of profit.