I am deeply fulfilled in all that I put into my work and enjoy receiving my earnings.

Some of the best moments at work have no audience at all.

A seam ground flat inside a housing nobody will ever open. A month's figures that reconcile to the penny on the first attempt, at twenty past six, in an empty room.

Nobody claps. There is no line on any report where that goes. The satisfaction is real and entirely private, and it does not need a witness in order to have happened.

The pay is the other half, and it is allowed to be enjoyed without apology. Money that arrives from work you did carefully spends exactly the same as any other money, and tends to sit better.