Posters here have a tendency to mention things like the annual bonus, raises, etc.
At this point in time though, humanity should be much farther along than to get giddy over financial peanuts. Even if you think your bonus is big, it's not.
If you take the "my job is better than McDonald's, therefore I'm successful" approach (i.e. glass is half full), it can help keep you mostly sane, but how sad to be an adult and have to lie to yourself like that?!
AI and robotics should have been heavily studied for years now as a concerted effort to relieve mankind from needing to work. Eliminating the need for humans to work should be civilization's shared goal, regardless of other differences.
But no, you lie to yourselves, and tell yourself that you're "doing well" even though you're not happy. You've perfected your fake smile though.
The best years of the only life you'll ever live - poof! Gone. All because you got duped into thinking that the act of performing work is somehow virtuous, when in reality it's neither virtue nor vice. It's just a waste of our time and lives.
We have failed ourselves and future generations. We could all be living healthy and comfortable without needing to go to a job. But we insist on pretending to be happy paid slaves instead. Weird!
If other life exists beyond our atmosphere, it won't be impressed with our intelligence.