My career gives me exactly what I need to sustain my life.

There's an old arrangement, currently out of fashion, where the work funds the life and is not required to be the life. Somebody clocks off at four, collects a child from the gate, coaches an under-11s side on Sundays, and never once calls any of it a calling.

Sustaining a life is not a small assignment. Rent, shoes, the dentist, the week in a caravan in August.

Nothing about that is a lesser arrangement. A job that covers the life underneath it is doing the thing jobs were invented for.