The work is fine as long as it is going somewhere
The task itself is rarely the issue. Mars in Sagittarius in the 6th house ties your daily effort to whether the work is heading anywhere, so identical tasks produce enormous output when the direction is clear and almost none when it is not.
The sign is why meaning is the fuel and the house is why it has to be spent on routine. That is the tension of the arrangement: your capacity is genuinely large, and it is switched by something that most jobs are not built to supply.
Procedure for its own sake is intolerable
Rules that exist because they have always existed produce a reaction in you out of proportion to the inconvenience. It is not laziness, it is that the effort feels wasted, and you are frequently right. Ask what the rule is for before objecting. About half the time there is an answer and knowing it makes the rule bearable.
A great deal of work, in bursts, on the right thing
When a project has your belief you will work hours that alarm people, and the same person cannot get through an afternoon of the version that does not. Your output looks unreliable and it is entirely predictable once the variable is known. Say what the variable is at interview, plainly, rather than promising consistency.
Detail is where the enthusiasm runs out
The last ten per cent, the paperwork, the checking: this is where things stall, every time, and it is the part that determines whether any of it counts. Build the finishing into the plan as a separate named task with a date, or pair with somebody who enjoys it. Willpower has never covered this gap.
You will teach anybody who asks
Colleagues learn things from you constantly, because explaining is enjoyable and you do it generously and at length. It is a real contribution and it is entirely uncounted. Formalise some of it: the training role, the documentation, the named responsibility. What you are doing anyway is worth more with a title on it.
Training with a destination attached
A programme with no event at the end of it will hold you for about six weeks. Enter something: the distance, the trip, the thing with a date and a map. Your body maintains itself perfectly well when there is somewhere to arrive, and does not respond at all to the argument that maintenance is sensible.
Teaching it is the part they should be paying for
Colleagues learn from you constantly because explaining something is enjoyable to you and you do it at length for nothing. Across a department that adds up to a genuine function performed by somebody with no remit to perform it. Get it named: the training responsibility, the documentation, the induction. Work you are already doing acquires both a title and a rate the moment somebody writes it down.
Colleagues who became travelling companions
The people you like at work end up in your actual life, usually via something that happened outside the building. That is how your friendships form and it means a remote or purely transactional job leaves you with none. Weight that when choosing, because it affects considerably more than your working hours.
Meaning is a working condition, not a luxury
You have tried to be the sort of person who does a job because it pays, and the attempt has failed each time in the same way. That is worth accepting rather than continuing to test. Build the life around work you can believe in, even at a lower rate, since the alternative version does not actually produce the money either.
The daily maintenance somebody else is doing
You bring the plans and the momentum, and the unglamorous continuous upkeep of a shared life is quietly being handled by whoever you are with. It is invisible precisely because it works. Take one recurring domestic responsibility entirely, permanently, and do it without being reminded. That is the specific currency you have been short of.