Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?
Raising my son.<p>Playing music with my friends.<p>Building a home and relationships with my partners.<p>Building my body and mind through long term studies of various branches of philosophical and intellectual inquiry.<p>Caring for specific peoples&#x27; specific needs.<p>That all might sound hippy-dippy or unrealistic, but because of the history of our economy we tend to value only monetarily compensated public labor as &quot;work&quot;, when in fact the domestic labor that recreates ourselves across time (like building homes and raising children) is far more intimate and important to our lives.<p>That is just my limited experience; I&#x27;m open to being wrong about that in other people.<p>And that&#x27;s maybe a tough set of priorities if you&#x27;re working 60 hours a week (including commute and the domestic labor that goes into maintaining yourself for the sole purposes of being able to do paid labor).<p>So, as I recognized that, I optimized my for-pay labor (I&#x27;m a web dev) into a 30-hour-a-week salaried 100% remote deal with a person who is a fantastic sales person.  The work is fun and interesting, but more importantly it can be &quot;just about the paycheck&quot; because the meaningful work in my life gets enough time and attention for me to feel good about that work and see the results.<p>I dunno if that would work for other people, but it&#x27;s been working well for me.