Resume building a no no?

This morning I read an article posing the idea that resume building for the sake of resume building is always a bad thing. Here's an excerpt (read the rest here):

I feel like there are a lot of people who look at opportunities through that lens. They look for the next opportunity to put on their resume or the next opportunity that will get them a promotion. Personally… I feel like that’s a really bad idea.

By focusing on getting a promotion, you don’t look for the project that you’re passionate about… You look for the project that will advance your career. There is a world of difference between working on a project because you want the end result versus working on a project that you’re passionate about. And it shows in the work you do.

When you focus on building a resume, you lose sight of your goals.
You stop doing what you want to do, and you start doing what you think is best for your career. But what’s best for your career is finding something that you truly love. If you continue down the path of trying to get the next promotion, you’ll end up with a powerful position in a job that you hate.

~The Brazen Careerist*

Now, in my opinion, resume building in the workplace is sometimes necessary. Why? Because not many people are going to trust you to do the big jobs that you want to do right off the bat. If you want to be an account executive or senior editor, you have to do the grunt work that doesn't inspire you first. If this doesn't appeal to you, or you find it unbearable, you become an entrepreneur a.s.a.p. Though this is common knowledge (I think :o ), that doesn't mean you have to love the job that you hate.

I'm of the mindset that there is always a silver lining, and that everything is a learning experience. Sure, you don't like sorting your boss' mail and fact checking behind freelance writers whose work is sub par to yours (oh yeh, I've been there - shout out to my editorial assistants!), but think about what you can be getting out of the drudge work (using the EA scenario as an example):

• you get exposure to a senior employee who can champion your promotion within the company or get your name out in the industry


• while looking through mail, you see which agencies/businesses your company interacts with on a regular basis, and you can suggest ways your boss can strengthen these relationships - assisting him/her with their business, which in turn makes you look good
  
• you gain one or two years of general professional experience, which is the base line requirement for any next-level position (don't you hate that?) Though you may feel like this is an unnecessary barrier to your advancement (didn't you do all the internships and edit all the student publications in college?), most HR managers don't feel the same way. They want to know that you showed up on time (to get coffee for the office) every day for 104 weeks. That you thrived in a formal professional setting (by compiling calendar listings quietly in your cubicle). And that you're not a flake (writing drafts of your first novel in the bathroom after lunch, or job hopping "to fulfill yourself" the first year out of undergrad)

So, to sum it up: resume building your life (with extracurricular organizations that have worthwhile causes - like homelessness or educational reform - that you should be passionately involved in to participate) is wrong. Resume building the first five years of your career? Absolutely necessary, in the eyes of this (aspiring) media maven. What do you think?