The day has to have some pride in it
A Leo Jupiter working out of the 6th house hands you an ordinary day that must be worth doing: the task done properly, a workplace you are not embarrassed by, a standard you set rather than inherit. Demeaning work damages you. What this needs is a role you can describe without apology.
You are considerably more diligent than the reputation of this combination suggests. The work gets done thoroughly because doing it badly would reflect on you, which is a slightly vain reason for a genuinely high standard, and the standard holds regardless.
Colleagues take their tone from you
The mood of a team follows yours more than anybody has told you: when you are engaged the room lifts, and when you have withdrawn the whole department can feel it by Wednesday. That is real influence and it operates whether or not you want the responsibility. Decide what tone you are setting on the way in, since it is being set either way.
Nothing gets done badly on purpose
You cannot bring yourself to submit something shoddy even when nobody would notice and the deadline was unreasonable to begin with. It has cost you a great many evenings and earned you a considerable reputation. Learn where good enough is genuinely enough, and pick two categories of work each year in which you deliberately do the adequate version.
You want the work to be visible
Effort that disappears into a process bothers you more than hard effort does, and you will choose a harder job with a name on it over an easier one without. That preference is worth designing around rather than suppressing. Ask what the outcome will be called and who will be associated with it, before you agree to the task.
The body wants to be looked after well
Your maintenance runs on quality rather than discipline: the exercise you enjoy, the food that is actually good, the routine that feels like a treat rather than a punishment. Austere regimes collapse with you inside a month. Choose the version you would happily describe to somebody, because for you that is the only kind that lasts a year.
The workplace friendships are the real ones
You give a great deal to the people you work with: attention, encouragement, the sense that somebody senior has noticed them. Several of those relationships have already outlasted the job they began in. Keep two of them properly after you leave, since generosity at close range deserves a form that survives a change of building.
You will not do it cheaply for long
Underpaid work reaches your motivation long before it reaches your budget, and what falls is not the quality of the output but the willingness to produce it at all. That is worth acting on early rather than enduring. Raise the rate or leave within the year, since resentment here is a far more expensive outcome than an awkward conversation.
You keep going in order not to be seen failing
The reason you work through a bad week is rarely the deadline; it is not wanting anybody to watch you fall short. That motive is powerful and it has no natural stopping point. Tell one colleague when you are struggling, since here the admission is what makes rest possible and the silence is what makes it impossible.
Give me the difficult one with an audience
You perform best when the task is demanding and somebody senior is paying attention, and you visibly deflate on routine work nobody will look at. That is not a flaw to be managed but a specification to be used. Ask for the piece of work that gets presented, and let the routine half be shared out.
Your standards are yours, not inherited
How well a thing should be done is a question you answer for yourself, and you have never taken kindly to being told the acceptable level by somebody who does less. That independence is one of your better qualities. Write down what your own standard actually is, since defending it is easier once it has been stated rather than merely felt.
