54. Ben
For some people, the work situation is so good, or the project is so interesting, or the product is so cool that they love their work more than they love their salary.
Ben—not his real name—works at a CAD software company. Ben is an engineer with an amazing grasp of higher mathematics. Apart from his normal project work, Ben helps people who have a problem they cannot solve unaided. (These are significant problems—Ben’s coworkers are also very bright people.) Quite often, the problem is not within Ben’s charter—sometimes not even within his division of the company—but he spends some time with his coworkers and they usually come up with a good solution.
The point of this story is that Ben takes great pleasure in his work. This is a man ...
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