The day is where the whole account is settled
Your Sun burns Capricorn-style from the 6th house, which means an ordinary working day carries the entire weight of how you judge yourself. A week done properly steadies you completely; a week of drift is disproportionately corrosive. You need work you can do to a standard you set.
That combination produces exceptional reliability and no natural stopping point. The structure of the job will not supply a limit here, because you would keep going past whatever limit it set.
You will carry more than was asked
Additional work arrives and you absorb it, partly because you can and partly because refusing feels like a failure of capacity. Over years the load ratchets upward and never comes back down. Decline one thing a quarter, plainly and without a reason attached, and observe that nothing at all happens as a consequence.
The body is equipment you maintain
You treat your physical condition the way you treat everything: as a system with inputs and a maintenance schedule. That is largely the right approach and it has a specific failure mode, which is working through a signal because the schedule said today was a working day. Build the rest days into the plan so that stopping is compliance rather than weakness.
The standard is yours and nobody can see it
You hold a level of quality that the job does not require and nobody is inspecting, and you would hold it whether or not anybody knew. That is genuine integrity and it goes unrewarded by design. Keep it because it is yours, and stop waiting for it to be noticed, since waiting is what turns it into a grievance.
Know what the effort is for
You will work indefinitely without asking what the work is serving, and a decade can pass on that basis. The question is not a challenge to your discipline; it is the thing that keeps the discipline pointed somewhere. Write down what this year of effort is actually buying, and read it back in twelve months.
The one who is still there
Your advantage in any organisation is durability: you outlast reorganisations, you know how things actually work, and you become quietly essential. Convert that into standing rather than only into workload. Ask, once a year and formally, for the title and the pay that match what you are already carrying. Bring the list of what you already do, because the case makes itself and you will not make it otherwise.
Stiffness before tiredness
Your first physical signal is mechanical rather than emotional: knees, lower back, a shoulder that objects, joints that no longer move as they did. Take it seriously the week it appears rather than the season after. Regular movement, done unheroically and often, is worth more here than any period of intensive correction.
The person the new starter is sent to
Whoever joins the team gets pointed at you, because you know how everything works and you will explain it without making them feel stupid. That informal role is one of the more valuable things in any workplace and it appears on no job description. Take it seriously as mentoring rather than as an interruption, and the people you trained become your professional standing twenty years later.
Steady earnings, undersold
Your income is reliable and consistently below what your contribution supports, because you will not raise it without an unarguable case. Make the case an annual administrative task rather than a conversation you have to feel ready for. A date in the calendar produces the increase that a decade of deserving it did not.
A working life you would choose again
Endurance is not in question here; direction is. It is entirely possible to spend thirty years doing something well that you never actually chose. Take one honest look at whether you would enter this field again knowing what you now know, and let the answer inform the next decade rather than the last one.