Some age old wisdom I was just reminded of:

"Love the work you do and it will love you back."

Well, except, for some of us that tried this, we may have loved the craft side of the profession more than the goal-side, likely as that was the one we were empowered over.

And Now.

Now we find the craft has been made worthless, and only the goal, over which power is harder to come by, is all that will honored.