My job: life or contract?

How should we understand our jobs properly? Should we accept it as a contracts from beginning to end or, as an inherit part of out life, like something personal, something private? What is better?  Is it enough to carry ones job according to a contract with its well-defined responsibilities? Is it sufficient to work within a contract’s boundaries only? Obviously, it is very good. Do contract workers work best for a company?I guess, huge companies with a developed, mature roll out process find contracts useful. They are satisfied by contractors, through established rules and predefined procedures. All workers are units with predictable attitudes like screws.  Formal conformity is valuable. What about small or developing companies? What kind of personnel should be hired?  Should they use contracts? Yes, of course, people would say. In practice, such an approach does not work in
Russia. One wise IT-man said: hire developers, not programmers. This means, that you (as the boss of a small company) should hire inventive, extra-qualified guys who can potentially carry out many things. I guess he is right. In the future, these guys will compose the core of the company. In our company we take our job as a very personal thing. We are married to our jobJ. Every thing here is done by our own hands: every cable connected, every program running, every matter we can think of. (BTW: One of my friends, a psychologist, asserts that such a behavior shows human territorial instinct. That is very interesting!) Our jobs are part of our mind; we can’t separate ourselves from our jobs. The problem in reality is that our company became too big. Should we still then work as usual? I believe we shouldn’t. We must establish rules, procedures, and processes like in any big companies. We have to supply description, (may be also tools) of job to new colleagues, who will be contractors. In the past, we needed friends, now we need soldiers.