You have a wicked cool job!  Possibly your role is insight generation for the wider business.  Beyond just quality control, engineers on your team or far-flung teams may have an epiphany looking at one of your images that leads to the next breakthrough in design or manufacture.<p>It&#x27;s a very abstract sort of &quot;atta-boy&quot; we need to be giving ourselves here.  And companies need to do a better job of tracing success stories back up the chain and celebrate individuals for their specific contributions to the &quot;big wins&quot; when they occur to humanize the whole endeavor.<p>As far as the janitor goes, I am less enthusiastic.  That role in the marketplace will be automated away because there&#x27;s very little craft to that job where human participation is useful.  Comparing what you do with the waste and dust collector doesn&#x27;t seem right.