My father worked a job which paid well, but did not challenge him, and which had a lot of tedious paperwork. Hanging from the goose-neck lamp on his office desk he had this quote from Thomas H. Huxley (1825 — 1895):
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
I am blessed that my mother and father are both still with me.