13 Reasons to do your job well

1. Forever is composed of nows.    Emily Dickinson
2. Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.    -Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.  - Annie Dillard
4. Every job is a self‑portrait of the person who does it.  Autograph your work with excellence.
5. Everything can be taken from a man but the last of the human freedoms ‑ to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. -Victor Fankl
6. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. -epiticus
7. It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. -Sydney Smith
8. I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. -Helen Keller
9. Laws control the lesser man.  Right conduct controls the greater one.  -chinese proverb
10. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds -Franklin D. Roosevelt
11. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -Aristotle
12. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw
13. Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.     -Aristotle

You can spend your life wishing you were somewhere else, or  you can make your current job worthwhile.  All it takes is a change in focus.  Doing something well creates its own satisfaction.